"TEDROS GHEBREYESUS"

Briefing by Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

After the International Health Regulations Emergency Committee (IHREC) decided not to classify the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, World Health Organization chief Tedros Ghebreyesus emphasised that “for the affected families and communities, this outbreak is very much an emergency.” WHO

Emmanuel Macron, President of the French Republic and Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) met at WHO Headquarters in Geneva to sign a Declaration of Intent to establish the WHO Academy with a base in the French city of Lyon, that promises to revolutionize lifelong learning in health. WHO

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