The grim impossibility of addressing rising health emergencies with dwindling budgets was raised at the World Health Assembly (WHA) on Tuesday – amid votes on attacks on healthcare in Lebanon and Israel. “Outbreaks are accelerating, while the systems designed to stop them are being weakened,” warned Dr Annette Heinzelmann, emergency director for the WHO Eastern Mediterranean […] Continue reading ->
“From conflicts to economic crises to climate change and aid cuts, we live in difficult, dangerous and divisive times,” World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told the opening plenary of the World Health Assembly (WHA) on Monday. While geopolitical disagreements have delayed Tedros’s official WHA address until Tuesday morning, the Director […] Continue reading ->
The outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) may be “a much larger outbreak than what is currently being detected and reported, with significant local and regional risk of spread”, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Sunday.  The WHO declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) on […] Continue reading ->