World Bank approves new fund for pandemic prevention
The devastating human, economic, and social cost of COVID-19 has highlighted the urgent need for coordinated action to…
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New Political Declaration to halve road traffic deaths
The World Health Organization (WHO) welcomes the political declaration to be adopted by Member States during the High-level…
WHO releases Multi-country monkeypox outbreak update
Since 13 May 2022, monkeypox has been reported to WHO from 23 Member States that are not endemic…
Ethiopia launches second round polio campaign
Ethiopia on Friday launched the second-round polio campaign with type 2 novel oral polio vaccine (nOPV2) aiming to…
Why WHO chief bamboozles international community
By Addis G. Tadesse – It is daunting to witness that the international community allows themselves to be…
EIB pledges 500 million euro to strengthen African public health
The European Investment Bank (EIB) is set to pledge 500 million euro under partnership launched today by World…
Africa records 1.1 million new cancer cases
Every year Africa records around 1.1 million new cases of cancer, resulting in up to 700 000 deaths.
Ethiopia opposes WHO’s attachment to terrorist group
The Government of Ethiopia has opposed the decision of the Executive Board of the World Health Organization (WHO)…
Gates Foundation, Wellcome pledge $300 million to tackle COVID-19
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Wellcome each pledged US$150 million for a total of US$300 million…
Ethiopia files complaint against WHO chief Tedros Adhanom
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia expressed its objection against TPLF member and the Director-General of WHO,…
WHO approves two drugs for COVID-19 treatment
The World Health Organization (WHO) today recommended two new drugs to treat patients with COVID-19.
Ethiopia urges UNESCO, WHO to condemn damages by TPLF
An official at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia who met officials of United Nations Educational, Scientific…
Why Western, U.S. media reactivated reports on Ethiopia
Weekend reading – BY ANDUALEM SISAY GESSESSE – Over the past few days and weeks, the propaganda machines…
Democratic Republic of Congo detects Ebola virus disease
The Ministry of Health of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) announced that a new laboratory confirmed…
WHO appoints Gordon Brown as Ambassador for Global Health Financing
The World Health Organization today announced the appointment of The Rt Hon Gordon Brown, former Prime Minister of…
African Health Ministers to discuss continental health challenges
Ministers of Health and representatives from African countries are set to meet virtually for the Seventy-first session of…
One in 100 deaths is by suicide, WHO says
Suicide remains one of the leading causes of death worldwide, according to WHO’s latest estimates, published today in…
ACT accelerator partnership welcomes 870 million vaccine doses commitment
G7 leaders donate 870 million vaccine doses of COVID-19 pandemic for low and low-middle income countries over the…
African countries set to miss urgent COVID-19 vaccination
PRESS RELEASE – As COVID-19 cases in Africa rise for the third week running and vaccines are increasingly…
Global leaders confer on clean, healthy future for all
Over 20 leaders, including ministers of health and energy, heads of international organizations and senior representatives from civil…
WHO supports people quitting tobacco
The World Health Organization’s (WHO) ‘Commit to Quit’ tobacco campaign has made resources from its Quitting Toolkit freely…
WHO lists additional COVID-19 vaccine
The World Health Organization (WHO) today listed the Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, giving the green light…
WHO calls for better hand hygiene
The World Health Organization (WHO) highlights the urgent need to reduce inequalities in the availability of good hand…
Malaria vaccine reaches 650,000 children in Kenya, Ghana, Malawi
Two years on from the launch of a pilot program, more than 1.7 million doses of the world’s…
Ethiopia gives COVID-19 vaccination for health workers
The Ministry of Health of Ethiopia on Saturday begins vaccination of COVID-19 with a high-level national event held…
How Africa manufactures to meet its pharmaceutical needs
Side events for the seventh Session of the African Regional Forum for Sustainable Development (ARFSD) kicked off virtually…
Canada supports primary healthcare services in Ethiopia
The World Health Organization office in Ethiopia has secured 9.9 million Canadian dollars from the Government of Canada.…
UN agency receives reports of rising hunger in Tigray
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) said on Tuesday that it is “receiving…
Does United Nations know who heads WHO?
OPINION- By Addis G. Tadesse – World Health Organization Director General Dr. Tedros Adhanom went political in his…
WHO chief solicits military support for TPLF militias
The former Foreign Minister of Ethiopia and current chief of the World Health Organization (WHO) Dr. Tedros Adhanom,…