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The matches escalated sharply at the end of January, when Rwanda-backed M23 rebels seized control of parts of North Kivu, including areas near the regional capital of Goma, moving on to South Kivu. Before the recent violence, MPOX cases had been stabilized, who said who Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, in a speech to the Agency’s […]

The move from the UN Agency dedicated to end the illness came in response to an immediate 90-day financing break for all foreign aids set out in a executive order by President Trump, including the US President’s emergency plan for AIDS-PREPARATION (PEPFAR ). PepFar is the world’s leading HIV initiative that directly supports more than

The Internet also remains down in the provincial capital, and only mobile phone networks work, with M23 warriors who seem to be in control of “a significant part of the city” After intense clashes with the Congolesian armyUN agencies reported Wednesday. Auxiliary teams from the UN World Health Organization (WHO) “cannot move freely to support

It now joins 45 countries and one territory that have achieved this milestone. “Today we congratulate the people of Georgia for their decades of targeted and sustained action to eliminate malaria, one of the world’s leading killers,” said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General. About WHO certification Malaria is spread by some types of mosquitoes and

From laboratories to battlefields, the UN’s specialized health agency has been dedicated to the well-being of all people since 1948. It is guided by science and supported by its 194 member nations, including the United States, a co-founder who on Monday announced plans to withdraw. What has WHO done for the world? The short answer

In response, the World Health Organization (WHO) calls for 1.5 billion dollars through its 2025 Health Emergency Appeal to deliver life-saving health interventions worldwide. The appeal, unveiled on Thursday by WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, outlines the urgent priorities to address 42 ongoing health emergencies, including 17 that require immediate and coordinated action. “Conflicts, outbreaks,

“Allowing hate speech and harmful content online has real-world consequences. Regulating this content is not censorship.” Volker Türk wrote the X. In a longer LinkedIn post on the same theme, Mr. Türk that efforts to create safe online spaces were termed “censorship…ignore[s] the fact that unregulated space means some people are silenced – especially those

“Since this morning’s reports of a raid on the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, we have lost contact with the staff there,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus wrote on social media platform X. “This development is deeply disturbing given the number of patients being served and people housed there,” he added. Northern Gaza has

UN human rights chief Volker Türk said the darkest moment in the Gaza conflict is unfolding in the northern part of the strip, where the Israeli military is effectively exposing an entire population to bombing, siege and risk of starvation, as well as being forced to choose between mass displacement and being caught in an

Hours after the campaign rolled out, reports indicated that a health center in the north had been hit, injuring six people, including four children, in a place where there had been a humanitarian pause, according to the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) . . “We have received an extremely worrying report that the