Health is 'investment in our collective future': WHO chief
4 years, 7 months ago

Health is 'investment in our collective future': WHO chief

India TV News  

World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus highlighted the importance of stronger health systems and the investment in health for all people. "The pandemic has shown again, and in the strongest way possible, that investing in health is not just the right thing to do, it's the smart thing to do," he said at a virtual press conference from Geneva on Friday, adding that health is "an investment in our collective future", reported Xinhua news agency. "I am looking forward to greeting and working with leaders from across the world to ensure that together we optimise the COVID-19 response and build back stronger health systems," he added. Next week, the 73rd session of the World Health Assembly, described by Tedros as one of the most important meetings since WHO was founded in 1948, will be held in Geneva virtually on May 18 to 19.

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Representatives support WHA's decision to reject Taiwan-related proposal again
7 months, 1 week ago

Representatives support WHA's decision to reject Taiwan-related proposal again

China Daily  

Delegates attend the 77th World Health Assembly of the World Health Organization at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, May 27, 2024. GENEVA -- Representatives from Kiribati, Nicaragua and Guinea-Bissau expressed their support for the 77th World Health Assembly 's decision to reject Taiwan-related proposal once again. The WHA, the highest decision-making body of the World Health Organization, decided not …

India to Showcase Ayushman Bharat, Digital Health Transformations at World Health Assembly
7 months, 2 weeks ago

India to Showcase Ayushman Bharat, Digital Health Transformations at World Health Assembly

News 18  

India will highlight its universal coverage through Ayushman Bharat, public health emergency preparedness and digital health transformations in the country at the World Health Assembly to be held in Geneva from May 27, official sources said on Wednesday. It will also showcase the Arogya Maitri Disaster Management Cube — an indigenous portable hospital — equipped with several innovative tools designed …

Amid global polarisation, the pandemic agreement encourages cooperation
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Amid global polarisation, the pandemic agreement encourages cooperation

Al Jazeera  

The treaty under negotiation is a life-saving tool that will ensure no one is left behind when the next pandemic strikes. This spurred a decision, by the 194 Member States of the World Health Organization, to undertake two landmark, parallel efforts: to start negotiating a first-ever pandemic agreement to prevent, prepare for and respond to pandemics, while at the same …

Keeping the hope for health alive
1 year ago

Keeping the hope for health alive

Al Jazeera  

As we close a year of milestones and challenges in global public health, our quest to achieve ‘Health for All’ continues. Heads of state at the United Nations General Assembly committed to advancing universal health coverage, ending tuberculosis and protecting the world from future pandemics. And as WHO closes out our 75th year as the “world’s” health organisation, I extend …

WHO chief urges China for ‘full access’ to solve origins of COVID-19
1 year, 3 months ago

WHO chief urges China for ‘full access’ to solve origins of COVID-19

Op India  

The Chief of the World Health Organisation Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has urged Beijing to grant ‘full access’ and offer more information on the origins of COVID-19, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. Tedros said, “We’re pressing China to give full access, and we are asking countries to raise it during their bilateral meetings — to cooperate. Speaking with Financial Times, …

COVID-19 still a global health threat, new variant under scanner: WHO chief
1 year, 4 months ago

COVID-19 still a global health threat, new variant under scanner: WHO chief

The Hindu  

Director-General of WHO Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus on August 18 said though COVID-19 is no longer a health emergency for the world, it is still a ‘global health threat’ and a new variant of coronavirus is already under the scanner. “Although COVID-19 is no longer a global health emergency, it remains a global health threat. On the occasion, he urged all …

‘Even deadlier…’: WHO chief warns of next pandemic as Covid-19 cases dip
1 year, 7 months ago

‘Even deadlier…’: WHO chief warns of next pandemic as Covid-19 cases dip

Hindustan Times  

World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has warned that the world should be ready for the next pandemic, which might be “even deadlier” than the Covid-19 pandemic. Tedros's statement comes days after the WHO said Covid-19 was no longer a global emergency, marking a symbolic end to the devastating pandemic that has claimed at least 7 million lives worldwide. …

World must prepare for disease more deadlier than Covid, WHO chief warns
1 year, 7 months ago

World must prepare for disease more deadlier than Covid, WHO chief warns

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The head of the World Health Organisation warned on Tuesday that …

'Deadlier than Covid': WHO chief urges nations to prepare for next pandemic
1 year, 7 months ago

'Deadlier than Covid': WHO chief urges nations to prepare for next pandemic

India TV News  

At a time when Covid cases are somewhat stabilising around the world, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the head of the World Health Organisation, issued a warning that the world must prepare for the next pandemic, which might be "even deadlier" than the Covid-19 pandemic. At the annual meeting of the United Nations agency, the head of WHO praised countries' "historic" decision …

'If not now, then when?' WHO chief asks country to prepare for next pandemic
1 year, 7 months ago

'If not now, then when?' WHO chief asks country to prepare for next pandemic

Firstpost  

The head of the World Health Organisation has asked countries to carry out reforms required to prepare for the next pandemic. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus’s comment came weeks after WHO ended the global health emergency status of the COVID-19 pandemic. “We cannot kick this can down the road,” the WHO director-general said in a major address to the agency’s member states, …

WHO at 75: Not a ‘global health police’
1 year, 9 months ago

WHO at 75: Not a ‘global health police’

The Hindu  

Published : Apr 07, 2023 16:29 IST - 5 MINS READ In April 1945, politicians from around the world gathered in San Francisco to establish the United Nations. “Perhaps the most noteworthy was the eradication of smallpox, the only human disease to be eradicated,” said El-Sadr, who also leads Columbia University’s Mailman School’s Global Health Initiative. “While there were others …

Explained: How World Health Organization might fight future pandemics
2 years, 1 month ago

Explained: How World Health Organization might fight future pandemics

Hindustan Times  

Negotiations on new rules for dealing with pandemics are underway at the World Health Organization, with a target date of May 2024 for a legally binding agreement to be adopted by the U.N. health agency's 194 member countries. A medical worker disinfects a tent used for suspected Ebola victims inside the Ebola isolation center of Madudu Health Center III, in …

WHO chief: The COVID pandemic is ‘most certainly not over’
2 years, 7 months ago

WHO chief: The COVID pandemic is ‘most certainly not over’

Associated Press  

BERLIN — The COVID-19 pandemic is “most certainly not over,” the head of the World Health Organization warned Sunday, despite a decline in reported cases since the peak of the omicron wave. He told governments that “we lower our guard at our peril.” The U.N. health agency’s director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, told officials gathered in Geneva for opening of the …

COVID-19 virus likely continues to evolve but severity reduces over time: WHO
2 years, 9 months ago

COVID-19 virus likely continues to evolve but severity reduces over time: WHO

China Daily  

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization, attends a news conference in Geneva, Switzerland, Dec 20, 2021. GENEVA - SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, is likely to keep evolving as transmission continues globally, but its severity will reduce due to immunity acquired by vaccination and infection, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday. Speaking at …

COVID-19: WHO chief Tedros Adhanom calls for cooperation, financing to end pandemic
2 years, 10 months ago

COVID-19: WHO chief Tedros Adhanom calls for cooperation, financing to end pandemic

India TV News  

The World Health Organization's Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has called for cooperation and collaboration in the face of common threats from the Covid-19 pandemic. The WHO chief made the remarks on Friday at a panel discussion titled "Get Well Soon: Finding a Way Out of the Pandemic" during the ongoing Munich Security Conference, reports Xinhua news agency. Tedros called on …

Wealthy nations ‘far from targets’ on COVID vaccine donations
3 years, 5 months ago

Wealthy nations ‘far from targets’ on COVID vaccine donations

Al Jazeera  

An expert independent panel monitoring the world’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic says wealthy nations have not done enough to transfer COVID-19 vaccines to developing nations where they are desperately needed as the Delta variant drives a new wave of disease around the world, In May, the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response, called for the reallocation of one …

WHO, at heart of world’s sluggish Covid response, could face shake-up
3 years, 7 months ago

WHO, at heart of world’s sluggish Covid response, could face shake-up

Live Mint  

The World Health Organization, at the heart of the world's sluggish handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, faces a potential shake-up to prevent future outbreaks as a top official warned that "the pathogens have the upper hand". Health ministers from WHO's 194 member states will also meet from Nov. 29 to decide whether to launch negotiations on an international treaty aimed …

At WHA talk-shop, countries mull WHO reforms and rebuilding post-Covid world
3 years, 7 months ago

At WHA talk-shop, countries mull WHO reforms and rebuilding post-Covid world

Hindustan Times  

The World Health Assembly will on Tuesday take up a resolution for discussion on the coronavirus disease pandemic and how to deal with health emergencies. The draft resolution, proposed by Australia, Canada and 27 other countries, and members of the European Union, has recommended strengthening the World Health Organization for better preparedness and response to such pandemic-like situations. The resolution …

Covid-19 continues to disrupt essential health services: WHO
3 years, 8 months ago

Covid-19 continues to disrupt essential health services: WHO

India TV News  

Over one year into the Covid-19 pandemic, about 90 percent of the world's 105 countries surveyed still report disruptions to their essential health services, the World Health Organization said. A recent WHO survey has found that about 66 percent of countries continue to report health workforce-related reasons as the most common cause of service disruptions, and in nearly one-third of …

WHO official: It is "unrealistic" to expect pandemic to be over by end of 2021
3 years, 10 months ago

WHO official: It is "unrealistic" to expect pandemic to be over by end of 2021

Salon  

A senior official at the World Health Organization believes that the world should not assume that the COVID-19 pandemic will be over by the end of 2021. It is "premature" and "unrealistic" to believe that the pandemic will be a thing of the past by Dec. 31, director of WHO emergencies program director Dr. Michael Ryan told reporters on Monday. …

Opinion: This is our best chance at defeating the pandemic
3 years, 10 months ago

Opinion: This is our best chance at defeating the pandemic

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Dr. Keith Rowley is the Prime Minister of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. CNN — “Vulnerable” is how Ugandan midwife Harriet Nayiga feels, working for a grassroots organization to provide sexual and reproductive health services in her community during the pandemic. Keith Rowley Office of the Prime Minister Republic of Trinidad and Tobago And nurse Keisha Prevatt-Gomez, …

Can beat coronavirus, must prepare for next pandemic now: WHO
4 years, 2 months ago

Can beat coronavirus, must prepare for next pandemic now: WHO

India Today  

The World Health Organisation has shared three crucial messages in the virtual session of 73rd World Health Assembly and said that the coronavirus can be defeated with science, solutions and solidarity. The World Health Assembly will in this regard consider a draft resolution that strengthens preparedness for health emergencies, such as Covid-19, through more robust compliance with the International Health …

COVID-19 pandemic not last, prepare for next: WHO chief
4 years, 4 months ago

COVID-19 pandemic not last, prepare for next: WHO chief

India TV News  

The coronavirus is not the last pandemic and the world must be better prepared for the next, World Health Organisation chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has warned, adding the countries must invest in public health to tackle the next pandemic in a better manner. As a reminder, the review committee will evaluate the functioning of the IHR during the pandemic so …

COVID-19 threatens to exacerbate conflict, humanitarian crises: WHO
4 years, 5 months ago

COVID-19 threatens to exacerbate conflict, humanitarian crises: WHO

India TV News  

COVID-19 threatens to exacerbate many issues the world is facing, such as years of conflict and other humanitarian crises, the chief of the World Health Organization has warned, while calling for continuity of essential health services. Although Covid-19 has rightly captured the world's attention, many countries, especially in Africa and the Middle East, are still reeling from years of conflict …

Is China the new leader on the world health stage? (Opinion)
4 years, 7 months ago

Is China the new leader on the world health stage? (Opinion)

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Michael Bociurkiw is a global affairs analyst, a former spokesman for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and host of the podcast Global Impact. CNN — The World Health Assembly – the biggest event on the global health agenda – held on Monday and Tuesday this week, can be easily summed up: The Trump administration threatened …

Chinese President Xi Jinping defends coronavirus response, backs WHO-led investigation
4 years, 7 months ago

Chinese President Xi Jinping defends coronavirus response, backs WHO-led investigation

ABC  

Chinese President Xi Jinping has defended China's handling of the coronavirus outbreak, saying his country will support a "comprehensive" World Health Organization-led review into the global response after the virus is brought under control. Key points: Chinese President Xi Jinping says his country has acted with "openness and transparency" throughout the coronavirus outbreak Mr Xi said China would support a …

WHO chief vows independent review of global pandemic response
4 years, 7 months ago

WHO chief vows independent review of global pandemic response

Al Jazeera  

Speaking at the World Health Assembly, held virtually, China also backs a ‘comprehensive review’ of the pandemic. Addressing the two-day forum on Monday, US Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar called WHO’s response a “failure” of information gathering and transparency that “cost many lives”. Internal review Despite the criticism, the WHO’s seven-member internal oversight body also issued its …

'Fight against COVID-19 depends on equal protection of everyone'
4 years, 8 months ago

'Fight against COVID-19 depends on equal protection of everyone'

India TV News  

World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that the ultimate measure of success in fighting COVID-19 will not be how fast the tools are developed but how equally they can be distributed. Speaking at the opening of the European Union COVID-19 online pledging conference Monday afternoon, the WHO chief said it will be unacceptable that some people in the …

WHO chief defends handling of coronavirus pandemic against Trump criticism
4 years, 9 months ago

WHO chief defends handling of coronavirus pandemic against Trump criticism

The Hindu  

The head of the World Health Organization gave a strident defence of his agency's handling of the coronavirus pandemic on Wednesday, in response to U.S. President Donald Trump's criticism and suggestions that Washington could review its funding for the agency. Data | United States bears the global brunt of new coronavirus cases Mr. Trump told the daily White House briefing …

WHO is struggling against COVID-19 and a divided world testing its authority
4 years, 9 months ago

WHO is struggling against COVID-19 and a divided world testing its authority

LA Times  

World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, shown on March 11 in Geneva, has come under fire for his early handling of the coronavirus outbreak. “The WHO has been sidelined from the biggest pandemic of the century,” said Lawrence Gostin, a Georgetown law professor and director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center on National and Global Health Law. In …

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