"TEDROS GHEBREYESUS"

The World Health Organization (WHO) commemorated a Day of Action for Cervical Cancer Elimination and welcomed groundbreaking new initiatives to end the devastating disease, which claims the lives of over 300,000 women each year. WHO

The Head of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General said COVID-19 “is surging in countries with lower vaccination rates in Eastern Europe, but also in countries with some of the world’s highest vaccination rates in Western Europe.” WHO

The World Health Organization approved another COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, Covaxin, as the "cases and deaths from COVID-19 are increasing again," the WHO's Executive Director Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus said on Thursday. WHO

The Head of the World Health Organization’s (WHO), Tedros Ghebreyesus, said, “the global number of reported cases and deaths from COVID-19 is now increasing for the first time in two months, driven by an ongoing rise in Europe that outweighs declines in other regions.” WHO

WHO chief Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus said the pandemic “is a powerful demonstration of just how much we rely on health workers, and how vulnerable we all are when the people who protect our health are themselves unprotected,” after a paper issued by the Organization estimated that some “115,000 health workers may have died from COVID-19 between January 2020 and May this year.” WHO

Football legend Didier Drogba was today announced as the World Health Organization's Goodwill Ambassador for Sport and Health. Drogba, from Côte d’Ivoire, will support WHO to promote the Organization’s guidance on the benefits of physical activity and other healthy lifestyles, and highlight the value of sports, particularly for youth. WHO

The World Health Organization (WHO) today announced the proposed members of the WHO Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens, or SAGO. The group will advise WHO on the development of a global framework to define and guide studies into the origins of emerging and re-emerging pathogens with epidemic and pandemic potential, including SARS-CoV-2. WHO

Speaking at the launch of the World Health Organization’ (WHO) Strategy to Achieve Global Covid-19 Vaccination by mid-2022, Secretary-General António Guterres said, "not to have equitable distribution of vaccines is not only a question of being immoral, it is also a question of being stupid." WHO

WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced the Organization’s recommendation for the “broad use of the world’s first malaria vaccine,” adding that the long-awaited vaccine “is a breakthrough for science, child health and malaria control.” WHO

The WTO Public Forum, the largest yearly outreach event by the World Trade Organization, came back for its 20th edition after being cancelled in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. WTO