World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared on Wednesday that he is “very concerned” about the coronavirus situation in China, where the Communist Party lifted some of its draconian lockdown measures with seemingly minimal preparation, resulting in large numbers of infections and potential deaths.
The Conversation Africa on Wednesday reported on a disturbing trend in Kenya: a spike in the number of female genital mutilations (FGM) performed during the long winter holiday season, which this year runs from November to January.
Chinese social media users are smuggling out videos of bodies piling up in hospital morgues this week as the Wuhan coronavirus allegedly sweeps the country, while the Chinese Communist regime is dispatching police to secure crematoriums in a losing battle to conceal the number of fatalities.
World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus revealed on Wednesday that he had received notice that his uncle in Ethiopia had been “murdered” in a massacre that resulted in the deaths of at least 50 other people in his village.
A spokesperson for the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) warned the Chinese Communist Party on Tuesday that abruptly ending Chinese coronavirus lockdown restrictions would be “really, really hard,” advising against sudden lockdowns in general because they are difficult to end.
Front Page Africa on Thursday described a new wrinkle in Liberia’s ongoing struggle with female genital mutilation (FGM): “traditional leaders” of tribal communities who saw an opportunity to abduct children and demand ransoms to release them without mutilation.
The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) has dismissed the term monkeypox as inherently racist, decreeing “mpox” should be used instead when referring to the virus as a way of sparing the feelings and easing the stigma of those enduring an attack.
Indian government officials joined pharmaceutical giant Bharat Biotech on Thursday to deny reports that Bharat’s indigenously-developed Chinese coronavirus vaccine, Covaxin, is being rushed to market under intense political pressure.
World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters this week that the number of documented Chinese coronavirus deaths dropped nearly 90 percent between February and November of this year.
Ugandan Health Minister Ruth Jane Aceng said on Monday that 14 cases of Ebola have been confirmed in the capital city of Kampala and its surrounding area during the previous 48 hours. Nine of the new patients were people who were in close contact with one of the 44 fatalities in the current outbreak.
The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) published a lengthy report this week on the importance of physical activity in keeping the world healthy, concluding that sedentary lifestyles are responsible for as much as $27 billion in needless healthcare costs a year and urging governments to implement coherent national policies to promote exercise, including “mass” events.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Sunday wrote a letter to the U.N. Security Council proposing the creation of an international “rapid action force” to help police in Haiti combat the gangs that have taken over critical infrastructure and blocked humanitarian aid.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on Thursday implemented Ebola testing for travelers who have visited Uganda within the past 21 days.
Multiple nations that maintain diplomatic ties with the nation of Taiwan – which precludes them from establishing a relationship with communist China, as per Beijing’s protocol – have used the United Nations General Assembly this week to demand that the U.N. include Taiwan as a full member.
World Health Organization (W.H.O.) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus sounded his most optimistic note since the beginning of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic this week, telling reporters “the end is in sight.”
Ethiopia’s civil war between the federal government and the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) is not the only deadly ethnic conflict raging in that turbulent country. On Friday, residents of the Oromiya region reported digging mass graves for at least 42 villagers slaughtered by a rival tribal militia.
World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday that the Chinese coronavirus pandemic demonstrated that the world needs a “stronger” and more “empowered” organization.
The director-general of the World Health Organization (W.H.O.), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, accused heads of state on Wednesday of racism for failing to address the ongoing “manmade” humanitarian disaster in his native Ethiopia, saying that the Russian invasion of Ukraine is getting more attention due to the skin color of Ethiopians.
The World Health Organisation (W.H.O.) confirmed Wednesday a dog has been infected with monkeypox through contact with its owner.
Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under President Donald Trump, warns the spread of monkeypox could become the United States’ next public health failure.
Gay and bisexual men at risk of catching monkeypox were told Wednesday to reduce their number of sexual partners “for the moment” by World Health Organization (W.H.O.) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
China’s state-run Global Times on Sunday used the World Health Organization’s (W.H.O.) controversial declaration of a global monkeypox emergency to demand quarantines for the disease, throwing in some sneers at the Western world for trying to live with the Wuhan coronavirus instead of imposing the devastating citywide “zero-Covid” lockdowns China insists upon.
World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus took the “unprecedented” measure this weekend of ignoring the agency’s special advisory committee to declare the spread of monkeypox a “public health emergency of international concern” – despite his lack of medical background and his own admission that the risk of it spreading was “moderate” at worst.
President Joe Biden’s White House stands four-square behind World Health Organization (W.H.O.) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and his unilateral declaration of a monkeypox global emergency.
LONDON (AP) – The chief of the World Health Organization said the expanding monkeypox outbreak in more than 70 countries is an “extraordinary” situation that now qualifies as a global emergency, a declaration Saturday that could spur further investment in treating the once-rare disease and worsen the scramble for scarce vaccines.
The government of India on Tuesday accused the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) of using “erroneous assumptions” and an “unscientific” model to extrapolate the true mortality rate from India’s coronavirus pandemic. W.H.O.’s estimate was almost double the official tally produced by Indian health officials.
The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) is set to release radical “gender identity” guidance, in which it claims “sex is not limited to male or female,” the Daily Mail reported Tuesday.
Parents living in London have been told to ensure their children are fully immunised against polio after traces of the disease were found in the capital’s sewage system.
The strange public relations campaign surrounding the monkeypox outbreak took another turn on Saturday, as the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) announced it would no longer distinguish between “endemic and non-endemic countries” to create a more “unified response” to the disease.
The World Health Organization admitted that the very lockdown policies it advocated for have resulted in a rise of mental health issues.
The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) announced on Tuesday that it will officially rename the monkeypox to address stigma.
Instead of addressing real threats to human health, WHO has issued a report on the mental health impact from so-called climate change.
The sudden spike in Monkeypox cases suggests that the virus has been spreading undetected, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
The global spread of monkeypox does not mean people should abandon massed LGBTQI+ pride parades and parties this summer, the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) advised Monday.
The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) on Tuesday said it is time to hold smokers to account for polluting the planet and “leaving mountains of waste to drive global warming.”
China was elected to the World Health Organization’s (W.H.O.) executive board on Friday, even though the Chinese gave false information to W.H.O. during the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak, obstructed investigations into the origin of the coronavirus, and persecuted Chinese doctors who tried to raise early warnings about the plague that would ravage the world.
The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) on Sunday issued an update on the emergence of monkeypox cases around the globe, deeming it a “moderate” health risk.
The World Health Assembly (WHA) in Geneva moved away from debating a “global pandemic treaty” on Thursday to pass a motion condemning the regional health emergency caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) on Thursday introduced a measure to stop overreach from the World Health Organization (W.H.O.), deeming the proposed “pandemic treaty” another instance of “dangerous globalist overreach.”
Gay dating app Grindr has sent out messages to its users in Europe warning them about the monkeypox disease, with the current outbreak being linked to LGBTQ events on the continent.
