WHO / GLOBAL HEALTH ISSUES
11-May-2023
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Briefing journalists in Geneva, the Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Ghebreyesus, declared that Mpox is no longer a global health emergency. WHO
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 11 MAY 2023, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
TRT: 06:08
SOURCE: WHO
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 11 MAY 2023, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
SHOTLIST
RECENT – GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1. Zoom out, exterior, WHO Headquarters
26 APRIL 2023, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
2. Wide shot, press briefing room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“In July last year, I declared a public health emergency of international concern over the multi-country outbreak of mpox as the virus spread rapidly across the world. In total, more than 87 thousand cases and 140 deaths have been reported to WHO from 111 countries. WHO has been very encouraged by the rapid response of countries. We now see steady progress in controlling the outbreak based on the lessons of HIV and working closely with the most affected communities. Almost 90 percent fewer cases were reported in the past three months, compared with the previous three months.”
4. Wide shot, press briefing room
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“Yesterday, the emergency committee for mpox met and recommended to me that the multi-country outbreak of mpox no longer represents a public health emergency of international concern. I have accepted that advice and am pleased to declare that mpox is no longer a global health emergency. However, as with COVID-19, that does not mean that the work is over. Mpox continues to pose significant public health challenges that need a robust, proactive, and sustainable response.”
6. Wide shot, press briefing room
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“Integration of mpox prevention and care into existing health programmes is recommended to allow continued access to care and rapid response to address future outbreaks. WHO will continue to work towards supporting access to countermeasures as more information on effectiveness of interventions becomes available.”
8. Wide shot, press briefing room
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“While the emergencies of mpox and COVID-19 are both over, the threat of resurgent waves remains for both. Both viruses continue to circulate, and both continue to kill.”
10. Wide shot, press briefing room
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Nicola Low, Vice-Chair, International Health Regulations Emergency Committee on mpox:
“So, the committee recognizes this need to… for ongoing commitments to maintain plans to control mpox with the long-term goal that the human-to-human transmission will be eliminated as well as mitigation of zoonotic transmission where possible. And that transition requires many integrated activities, which include integrating mpox prevention, preparedness, and response within national surveillance and control programs, including those for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections.”
12. Wide shot, press briefing room
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Rosamund Lewis, Head, Technical lead for mpox, Health Emergencies Programme, World Health Organization (WHO):
“It is absolutely critically important that we continue the efforts that have been initiated already because, as we are all aware through the past few years that as long as a virus is given the opportunity to continue to transmit from person to person, it also has the opportunity to change, to mutate, to evolve and this is particularly true in the instance when people who are immunocompromised are affected.”
14. Wide shot, press briefing room
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Michael Ryan, Executive Director, Health Emergencies Programme, World Health Organization (WHO):
“It is a neglected disease, and it has been totally neglected during this outbreak. In fact, WHO had to fund all of this international response purely on the basis of a contingency fund.”
16. Wide shot, press briefing room
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Michael Ryan, Executive Director, Health Emergencies Programme, World Health Organization (WHO):
“It’s not that it will become a neglected disease; it was a neglected disease; it is a neglected disease, and it will continue to be a neglected disease. It may come back, and it may shock us in the future. We need to keep monitoring this virus.
18. Wide shot, press briefing room
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Michael Ryan, Executive Director, Health Emergencies Programme, World Health Organization (WHO):
“We are dealing currently with 56 graded health emergencies around the world, and of those, 14 are grade 3, which is our highest grade of emergency. We’ve over 24 outbreaks of cholera going on in many countries, particularly in Africa, and I think anyone who works right now on immunization will see a huge increase in measles outbreaks we are seeing around the world, so the world is not quiet from the point of view of infectious diseases, nor other health emergencies.”
20. Wide shot, press briefing room
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“Ongoing fighting in Khartoum and across Sudan continues to cost lives and cripple the country economically and socially. As well as facing shelling and insecurity, people are dealing with dwindling supplies of water, food, medicines, and electricity. 70 percent of health facilities in areas affected by fighting are out of service, and WHO has verified 30 attacks on health. Outbreaks of malaria, dengue, and measles have been reported, and millions of children and pregnant and breastfeeding women are estimated to be acutely malnourished.”
22. Wide shot, press briefing room
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“I thank the governments of Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia, and South Sudan for welcoming refugees from Sudan; WHO is supporting these countries to provide health services to people who have had to leave their homes. We have managed to deliver a significant quantity of supplies to Port Sudan, but unless these supplies can be distributed to health facilities, they are of no use. Establishing safe routes for humanitarian aid is critical. But the ultimate solution is peace.”
24. Wide shot, press briefing room
1. Zoom out, exterior, WHO Headquarters
26 APRIL 2023, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
2. Wide shot, press briefing room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“In July last year, I declared a public health emergency of international concern over the multi-country outbreak of mpox as the virus spread rapidly across the world. In total, more than 87 thousand cases and 140 deaths have been reported to WHO from 111 countries. WHO has been very encouraged by the rapid response of countries. We now see steady progress in controlling the outbreak based on the lessons of HIV and working closely with the most affected communities. Almost 90 percent fewer cases were reported in the past three months, compared with the previous three months.”
4. Wide shot, press briefing room
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“Yesterday, the emergency committee for mpox met and recommended to me that the multi-country outbreak of mpox no longer represents a public health emergency of international concern. I have accepted that advice and am pleased to declare that mpox is no longer a global health emergency. However, as with COVID-19, that does not mean that the work is over. Mpox continues to pose significant public health challenges that need a robust, proactive, and sustainable response.”
6. Wide shot, press briefing room
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“Integration of mpox prevention and care into existing health programmes is recommended to allow continued access to care and rapid response to address future outbreaks. WHO will continue to work towards supporting access to countermeasures as more information on effectiveness of interventions becomes available.”
8. Wide shot, press briefing room
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“While the emergencies of mpox and COVID-19 are both over, the threat of resurgent waves remains for both. Both viruses continue to circulate, and both continue to kill.”
10. Wide shot, press briefing room
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Nicola Low, Vice-Chair, International Health Regulations Emergency Committee on mpox:
“So, the committee recognizes this need to… for ongoing commitments to maintain plans to control mpox with the long-term goal that the human-to-human transmission will be eliminated as well as mitigation of zoonotic transmission where possible. And that transition requires many integrated activities, which include integrating mpox prevention, preparedness, and response within national surveillance and control programs, including those for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections.”
12. Wide shot, press briefing room
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Rosamund Lewis, Head, Technical lead for mpox, Health Emergencies Programme, World Health Organization (WHO):
“It is absolutely critically important that we continue the efforts that have been initiated already because, as we are all aware through the past few years that as long as a virus is given the opportunity to continue to transmit from person to person, it also has the opportunity to change, to mutate, to evolve and this is particularly true in the instance when people who are immunocompromised are affected.”
14. Wide shot, press briefing room
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Michael Ryan, Executive Director, Health Emergencies Programme, World Health Organization (WHO):
“It is a neglected disease, and it has been totally neglected during this outbreak. In fact, WHO had to fund all of this international response purely on the basis of a contingency fund.”
16. Wide shot, press briefing room
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Michael Ryan, Executive Director, Health Emergencies Programme, World Health Organization (WHO):
“It’s not that it will become a neglected disease; it was a neglected disease; it is a neglected disease, and it will continue to be a neglected disease. It may come back, and it may shock us in the future. We need to keep monitoring this virus.
18. Wide shot, press briefing room
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Michael Ryan, Executive Director, Health Emergencies Programme, World Health Organization (WHO):
“We are dealing currently with 56 graded health emergencies around the world, and of those, 14 are grade 3, which is our highest grade of emergency. We’ve over 24 outbreaks of cholera going on in many countries, particularly in Africa, and I think anyone who works right now on immunization will see a huge increase in measles outbreaks we are seeing around the world, so the world is not quiet from the point of view of infectious diseases, nor other health emergencies.”
20. Wide shot, press briefing room
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“Ongoing fighting in Khartoum and across Sudan continues to cost lives and cripple the country economically and socially. As well as facing shelling and insecurity, people are dealing with dwindling supplies of water, food, medicines, and electricity. 70 percent of health facilities in areas affected by fighting are out of service, and WHO has verified 30 attacks on health. Outbreaks of malaria, dengue, and measles have been reported, and millions of children and pregnant and breastfeeding women are estimated to be acutely malnourished.”
22. Wide shot, press briefing room
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“I thank the governments of Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia, and South Sudan for welcoming refugees from Sudan; WHO is supporting these countries to provide health services to people who have had to leave their homes. We have managed to deliver a significant quantity of supplies to Port Sudan, but unless these supplies can be distributed to health facilities, they are of no use. Establishing safe routes for humanitarian aid is critical. But the ultimate solution is peace.”
24. Wide shot, press briefing room
STORYLINE
Briefing journalists in Geneva on Wednesday (11 May), the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Ghebreyesus, declared that Mpox is no longer a global health emergency.
In July last year, Tedros declared a public health emergency of international concern over the multi-country outbreak of Mpox as the virus spread rapidly across the world.
Over 87 thousand cases and 140 deaths have been reported to WHO from 111 countries.
WHO has been very encouraged by the rapid response of countries.
“We now see steady progress in controlling the outbreak based on the lessons of HIV and working closely with the most affected communities,” Tedros said.
Almost 90 percent fewer Mpox cases were reported in the past three months compared with the previous three.
Tedros said, “Yesterday, the emergency committee for Mpox met and recommended to me that the multi-country outbreak of Mpox no longer represents a public health emergency of international concern. I have accepted that advice and am pleased to declare that Mpox is no longer a global health emergency. “
“However,” he continued, “as with COVID-19, that does not mean that the work is over. Mpox continues to pose significant public health challenges that need a robust, proactive, and sustainable response.”
Integrating Mpox prevention and care into existing health programmes is recommended to allow continued access to care and rapid response to address future outbreaks.
WHO will continue to work towards supporting access to countermeasures as more information on the effectiveness of interventions becomes available.
WHO Director-General also said, “While the emergencies of Mpox and COVID-19 are both over, the threat of resurgent waves remains for both. Both viruses continue to circulate, and both continue to kill.”
Dr. Nicola Low, Vice-Chair of the International Health Regulations Emergency Committee on Mpox, said, “The committee recognizes this need to… for ongoing commitments to maintain plans to control Mpox with the long-term goal that the human-to-human transmission will be eliminated as well as mitigation of zoonotic transmission where possible. And that transition requires many integrated activities, which include integrating Mpox prevention, preparedness, and response within national surveillance and control programs, including those for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections.
Dr. Rosamund Lewis, Head, Technical lead for Mpox, WHO Health Emergencies Programme, said, “It is absolutely critically important that we continue the efforts that have been initiated already because, as we are all aware through the past few years that as long as a virus is given the opportunity to continue to transmit from person to person, it also has the opportunity to change, to mutate, to evolve and this is particularly true in the instance when people who are immunocompromised are affected.”
Michael Ryan, Executive Director of WHO’s Health Emergencies Programme, said, “It is a neglected disease, and it has been totally neglected during this outbreak,” and “It may come back, and it may shock us in the future.”
He stressed, “We need to keep monitoring this virus.”
He stated, “We are dealing currently with 56 graded health emergencies around the world, and of those, 14 are grade 3, which is our highest grade of emergency. We’ve over 24 outbreaks of cholera going on in many countries, particularly in Africa, and I think anyone who works right now on immunization will see a huge increase in measles outbreaks we are seeing around the world, so the world is not quiet from the point of view of infectious diseases, nor other health emergencies.
On the ongoing fighting in Khartoum and across Sudan, WHO’s chief said, “As well as facing shelling and insecurity, people are dealing with dwindling supplies of water, food, medicines, and electricity.”
70 percent of health facilities in areas affected by fighting are out of service, and WHO has verified 30 attacks on health.
Outbreaks of malaria, dengue, and measles have been reported, and millions of children and pregnant and breastfeeding women are estimated to be acutely malnourished.
Tedros thanked the governments of Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia, and South Sudan for welcoming refugees from Sudan and said, “WHO is supporting these countries to provide health services to people who have had to leave their homes. We have managed to deliver a significant quantity of supplies to Port Sudan, but unless these supplies can be distributed to health facilities, they are of no use.”
He concluded, “Establishing safe routes for humanitarian aid is critical. But the ultimate solution is peace.”
In July last year, Tedros declared a public health emergency of international concern over the multi-country outbreak of Mpox as the virus spread rapidly across the world.
Over 87 thousand cases and 140 deaths have been reported to WHO from 111 countries.
WHO has been very encouraged by the rapid response of countries.
“We now see steady progress in controlling the outbreak based on the lessons of HIV and working closely with the most affected communities,” Tedros said.
Almost 90 percent fewer Mpox cases were reported in the past three months compared with the previous three.
Tedros said, “Yesterday, the emergency committee for Mpox met and recommended to me that the multi-country outbreak of Mpox no longer represents a public health emergency of international concern. I have accepted that advice and am pleased to declare that Mpox is no longer a global health emergency. “
“However,” he continued, “as with COVID-19, that does not mean that the work is over. Mpox continues to pose significant public health challenges that need a robust, proactive, and sustainable response.”
Integrating Mpox prevention and care into existing health programmes is recommended to allow continued access to care and rapid response to address future outbreaks.
WHO will continue to work towards supporting access to countermeasures as more information on the effectiveness of interventions becomes available.
WHO Director-General also said, “While the emergencies of Mpox and COVID-19 are both over, the threat of resurgent waves remains for both. Both viruses continue to circulate, and both continue to kill.”
Dr. Nicola Low, Vice-Chair of the International Health Regulations Emergency Committee on Mpox, said, “The committee recognizes this need to… for ongoing commitments to maintain plans to control Mpox with the long-term goal that the human-to-human transmission will be eliminated as well as mitigation of zoonotic transmission where possible. And that transition requires many integrated activities, which include integrating Mpox prevention, preparedness, and response within national surveillance and control programs, including those for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections.
Dr. Rosamund Lewis, Head, Technical lead for Mpox, WHO Health Emergencies Programme, said, “It is absolutely critically important that we continue the efforts that have been initiated already because, as we are all aware through the past few years that as long as a virus is given the opportunity to continue to transmit from person to person, it also has the opportunity to change, to mutate, to evolve and this is particularly true in the instance when people who are immunocompromised are affected.”
Michael Ryan, Executive Director of WHO’s Health Emergencies Programme, said, “It is a neglected disease, and it has been totally neglected during this outbreak,” and “It may come back, and it may shock us in the future.”
He stressed, “We need to keep monitoring this virus.”
He stated, “We are dealing currently with 56 graded health emergencies around the world, and of those, 14 are grade 3, which is our highest grade of emergency. We’ve over 24 outbreaks of cholera going on in many countries, particularly in Africa, and I think anyone who works right now on immunization will see a huge increase in measles outbreaks we are seeing around the world, so the world is not quiet from the point of view of infectious diseases, nor other health emergencies.
On the ongoing fighting in Khartoum and across Sudan, WHO’s chief said, “As well as facing shelling and insecurity, people are dealing with dwindling supplies of water, food, medicines, and electricity.”
70 percent of health facilities in areas affected by fighting are out of service, and WHO has verified 30 attacks on health.
Outbreaks of malaria, dengue, and measles have been reported, and millions of children and pregnant and breastfeeding women are estimated to be acutely malnourished.
Tedros thanked the governments of Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia, and South Sudan for welcoming refugees from Sudan and said, “WHO is supporting these countries to provide health services to people who have had to leave their homes. We have managed to deliver a significant quantity of supplies to Port Sudan, but unless these supplies can be distributed to health facilities, they are of no use.”
He concluded, “Establishing safe routes for humanitarian aid is critical. But the ultimate solution is peace.”
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