"TEDROS GHEBREYESUS"

The ongoing Ebola outbreak in North Kivu and Ituri provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo does not constitute a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), according to the WHO’s Emergency Committee. WHO

The World Health Organization (WHO) is holding the first meeting of its Expert Advisory Committee on Developing Global Standards for Governance and Oversight of Human Genome Editing. WHO

“Leaving the area is not an option”, said the WHO head Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, in the wake of repeated attacks on Ebola Treatment Centers in the DR Congo and explained that evacuation is not an option because “we will lose what we have gained so far, and not only that the virus will get a free ride to spread aggressively.” WHO

The World Health Organization’s Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus today visited an Ebola treatment centre in Butembo, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, that was attacked by armed groups last week and again earlier today. WHO

New measures to overcome challenges in the response to the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are having a positive impact, although the outbreak remains dangerous and unpredictable, the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping and the World Health Organization (WHO) said after a joint mission to assess the outbreak. MONUSCO

UN peacekeeping chief Jean-Pierre Lacroix and the head of the World Health Organization Tedros Ghebreyesus visited the Ebola medical center in Beni in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the epicenter of the current Ebola epidemic. MONUSCO

The Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, and the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, undertook a joint visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to take stock of the situation and of joint efforts in response to the Ebola outbreak in North Kivu. MONUSCO

Air pollution kills 7 million people each year. Around the world, 9 out of 10 people breathe air that has been polluted by traffic emissions, industry, agriculture and waste incineration, according to a new report by the World Health Organization. WHO

The World Health Organization said today that the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo “does not constitute a public health emergency of international concern.” WHO

Briefing by Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases at the General Assembly Media Stakeout.