"TEDROS GHEBREYESUS"

"With the latest positive news from vaccine trials,” World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said, “the light at the end of this long, dark tunnel is growing brighter.” WHO

The heads of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), and the World Health Organization (WHO) today launched the new One Health Global Leaders Group on Antimicrobial Resistance. WHO

Responding to allegations that World Health Organization (WHO) chief Adhanom Ghebreyesus is illegally backing the Tigray Region forces in the Ethiopian conflict, a UN spokesperson said Secretary-General António Guterres “has the utmost respect for Dr Tedros who is an exemplary international civil servant.” UNIFEED

While news about COVID-19 vaccines are “encouraging,” World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said “this is not the time for complacency.” WHO

Opening the 73rd annual session of the World Health Assembly, the WHO’s Director General Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus said, "It’s time for the world to heal – from the ravages of this pandemic, and the geopolitical divisions that only drive us further into the chasm of an unhealthier, un-safer and unfairer future.” WHO

WHO chief Tedros Ghebreyesus said the COVID-19 pandemic hurt momentum on polio and measles and stressed the need to “turn the tide quickly and ensure no child is left behind.” WHO

WHO Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus said there is “light at the end of the tunnel” adding that there are “several” COVID-19 vaccines “now in final phase 3 trials.” WHO

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said that since the July meeting of the International Health Regulations (IRH) Emergency Committee on COVID-19, “many things have evolved, both for the positive and for the negative.” WHO

The Directors-General of UNESCO and WHO and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, issued a joint appeal reaffirming the fundamental right to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications, and advocating for open, inclusive and collaborative science. UNIFEED

WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus reiterated his call to “stop the politicization of COVID-19. A pandemic is not a political football. Wishful thinking or deliberate diversion will not prevent transmissions or save lives." WHO