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News Articles: World Health Organization

A medical technician shows a suspected monkeypox sample at the microbiology laboratory of La Paz Hospital on June 6 in Madrid. The World Health Organization is working with experts on changing the name of the virus.

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  • Global Health

The WHO wants to give monkeypox a new name

Scientists recently criticized the current name as "discriminatory and stigmatizing." They also say it's inaccurate to name versions of the virus after parts of Africa.

June 15, 2022
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By:
  • Bill Chappell
Ukrainian refugee Alina Archipova gives her daughter medication at a temporary shelter in Berlin, Germany, on March 10.

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  • Global Health

What's a good word for the welcome given to Ukrainian refugees in Europe? 'Generous'

That's how Paul Spiegel characterizes the reception — and medical services — offered by European nations. He spent 7 weeks on the scene for the World Health Organization to assess the situation.

May 05, 2022
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By:
  • Diane Cole
"Our baby boy, you are our angel," soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo and his partner, Georgina Rodríguez, said in their statement following the death of their newborn child. "We will always love you."

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  • World

Cristiano Ronaldo's newborn son has died

Soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo and his partner, Georgina Rodríguez, say their newborn son has died.

April 18, 2022
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By:
  • Rina Torchinsky
A nurse checks a baby in a hospital basement being used as a bomb shelter in Kyiv, Ukraine. More than 300 health facilities lie within conflict lines or areas that Russia claims to control, according to the World Health Organization.

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  • World

The WHO says Ukrainian health care is under attack, and it needs more funds to help

The World Health Organization has verified 43 attacks on health care in the three weeks since Russia invaded Ukraine, and says hundreds of facilities remain at risk.

March 17, 2022
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
A new report from UNICEF and the World Health Organization documents what it calls "aggressive" and "misleading" marketing of infant formula. There's special concern about efforts in low-resource countries

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  • Children's Health

Infant formula promoted in 'aggressive' and 'misleading' ways, says new global report

UNICEF and the World Health Organization issued the paper. It shows "that formula milk marketing remains unacceptably pervasive, misleading and aggressive," says Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus of WHO.

March 01, 2022
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By:
  • Fran Kritz
Hussein Raad, a 22-year-old college student, gets his second dose of the Pfizer vaccine at Zayoona Mall in Baghdad.

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  • Global Health

Iraq has enough doses of COVID vaccine for everyone. But many Iraqis don't trust it

The vaccination rate is only 17%. People are scared and skeptical for many reasons. Now government health workers are trying to up the numbers. One strategy: vaccination booths in the mall.

February 17, 2022
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By:
  • Jason Beaubien
Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu is the head of the World Health Organization's newly created Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence. "We have to get better at convincing leaders to use the data we provide and not their political instinct or whatever else their decisions are based on. And that's not easy," he says.

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  • Global Health

This Nigerian doctor has a tough new job: Stopping the next pandemic before it strikes

The World Health Organization has created a Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence. Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, who heads the group, talks about the challenges that lie ahead.

January 27, 2022
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By:
  • Joanne Silberner
World Health Organization Regional Director for Western Pacific Takeshi Kasai addresses the media at the start of the five-day annual session Monday, Oct. 7, 2019, in Manila, Philippines.

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  • World

WHO staffers accused its Western Pacific director of racism and abuse

The allegations were laid out in an internal complaint sent by unidentified "concerned WHO staff" to senior leadership.

January 27, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Maria Van Kerkhove, a top World Health Organization official on COVID-19, speaks at a news conference in July.

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  • World

The omicron variant has been found in 24 countries

More should be known about the transmissibility and severity of the new variant in "days, not necessarily weeks," a senior World Health Organization scientist says.

December 01, 2021
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By:
  • Scott Neuman
World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks at the WHO headquarters in Geneva on Oct. 18.

Tagged as: 

  • Global Health

WHO member states will work on a global agreement to deal with future pandemics

The coronavirus outbreak exposed flaws in the global health system but also showed a willingness among countries to work together, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO's director-general, says.

December 01, 2021
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By:
  • Joe Hernandez
Travelers exit the International Arrivals area at Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Virginia, on Monday. The Biden administration is banning travel for non-U.S. citizens from several African countries over concerns about the omicron variant.

Tagged as: 

  • National

The U.S. restricts travel from 8 countries as omicron variant spreads

President Biden has restricted travel from eight southern African countries in an effort to slow the spread of the omicron variant.

November 30, 2021
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By:
  • Tien Le
People step off a tram in Nottingham, England, a city where a case of the omicron variant of the coronavirus was identified last week.

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  • World

The World Health Organization warns of very high risk posed by the omicron variant

The newly identified strain of the coronavirus, which could be more transmissible than the previously dominant delta variant, has global health officials worried about a possible new surge in cases.

November 29, 2021
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By:
  • Scott Neuman
On November 29, the World Health Organization will convene a virtual summit for its member states to consider the handling of future outbreaks. Pictured above: WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.

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  • Global Health

The WHO is seeking a new treaty on handling future pandemics. It could be a hard sell

At a special session this week, the World Health Organization hopes to start sketching out a new world order. "We don't have rules of the game," says WHO head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

November 28, 2021
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By:
  • Jason Beaubien
Members of a team at the Afrigen Biologics and Vaccines lab in Cape Town, South Africa. The World Health Organization has enlisted the company to replicate Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine.

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  • Global Health

Moderna won't share its vaccine recipe. WHO has hired an African startup to crack it

It's the first step in an audacious plan to solve vaccine inequity by setting up the manufacturing of mRNA vaccines across low-resource countries,

October 20, 2021
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By:
  • Nurith Aizenman
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), speaks during a news conference on the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak in Geneva, in March 2020.

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  • World

WHO launches a new group to study the origins of the coronavirus

The World Health Organization advisory group will include scientists from the U.S., China and two dozen other countries and will study various hypotheses, including the possibility of a lab leak.

October 13, 2021
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By:
  • Scott Neuman
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