"WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION - WHO"

Briefing by Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

In 2018, over 140,000 people, mainly children, died from measles globally according to new World Health Organization (WHO) and United States Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates. UNICEF and partners are conducting measles vaccination campaigns in the hardest-hit areas as well as providing medical supplies for treatment. UNICEF

Worldwide more than 140,000 people died from measles in 2018, according to new estimates from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United States Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC). These deaths occurred as measles cases surged globally, amidst devastating outbreaks in all regions. WHO

United Nations top security official Gilles Michaud arrived today in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, to assess the security situation in the North Kivu province, especially regarding the Ebola response. MONUSCO

In the struggle against the Ebola virus in North Kivu, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a wide array of specialists and volunteers ensure that Ebola patients get the care and information they need as well as the vaccine if they are eligible.

Briefing by Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

The number of pregnant women and children in sub-Saharan Africa sleeping under insecticide-treated bed nets and benefiting from preventive medicine for malaria has increased significantly in recent years, according to the World Health Organization’s World malaria report 2019. WHO

Briefing by Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

WHO’s Director-General Dr.Tedros Ghebreyesus condemned the two attacks in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo on Wednesday in which four workers responding to the Ebola outbreak were killed and five others injured. WHO

World Food Programme was forced to suspend food delivery to thousands of people in the embattled town of Beni in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, while the UN refugee agency UNHCR is “calling for an urgent restoration of security to allow humanitarian agencies immediate access” to support population at the epicentre of the ongoing Ebola outbreak. UNTV CH