The Latest Breaking News from Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

One week on from deadly earthquakes vital aid is being held up by disputes between government and rebel groups, as well as wider diplomatic quarrels

As despair bred rage at agonizingly slow rescues, Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said 131 people were being investigated in connection with the construction of buildings that failed to withstand the quakes.

Since H5N1 was identified in 1996, only rarely have human cases occurred, and there hasn't been sustained transmission among humans, the WHO's director said. But "we cannot assume that will remain the case."

The World Health Organization is deploying expert teams and flights with medical supplies to Türkiye and Syria after Monday's devastating earthquake. It will send a high-level delegation to coordinate its response as well as three flights with medical supplies, one of which is already on its way to Istanbul, WHO…

"They're saying, 'Save us,' but we can't save them. How are we going to save them? "

A confidential U_N_ report into the alleged missteps by senior World Health Organization staffers in how they handled a sexual misconduct case during an Ebola outbreak in Congo found their response didn't violate the agency’s policies because of what some officials described as a “loophole.”

President Joe Biden announced on Jan. 30, 2023, that he intends to end both the national emergency and the public health emergency declarations related to COVID-19 on May 11, 2023.

We need to learn to coexist with COVID. It means applying appropriate prevention and control measures for COVID as we go about our lives.

As we enter the fourth year of living with COVID, we are all asking the predictable question: when will the pandemic be over?