US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order directing the United States to withdraw from the World Health Organization. The order aims to “pause the future transfer of any United States Government funds, support, or resources to the WHO” and to “identify credible and transparent United States and international partners to assume necessary activities…
The World Health Organization, WHO, has declared the outbreak of a new coronavirus in China, a global health emergency. The WHO Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus made the announcement at a press conference in Geneva. WHO’s emergency committee on the epidemic had reportedly met Thursday afternoon and recommended designating the outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International…
The World Health Organisation has disclosed that malaria killed no fewer than 597,000 people globally in 2023. The global health body revealed that during the year under review, estimated 263 billion cases of malaria were recorded worldwide. In its latest World malaria report released on Wednesday, WHO lamented that despite an estimated 2.2 billion cases…