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Montevideo, May 29th 2025 - 11:05 UTC

Tag: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

  • Tuesday, May 20th 2025 - 10:12 UTC

    WHO in dire straits without US funding

    “In at least 70 countries, patients are not receiving their treatments,” Tedros said

    The World Health Organization (WHO) is reducing its 2026-2027 budget from US$ 5.3 billion to US$ 4.2 billion to cope with the financial challenges stemming from US President Donald Trump's decision to pull his country out of the United Nations agency.

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  • Monday, March 24th 2025 - 20:12 UTC

    Uruguay reports first autochthonous case of dengue

    Tuberculosis prevails in overcrowded surroundings, Lustemberg stressed

    Uruguayan health authorities Monday confirmed the first autochthonous case of dengue this year. It was a patient in Montevideo, whose appearance triggered a full-scale deployment of epidemiology teams to track down the Aedes aegypti mosquito, the disease's vector. Montevideo City Hall teams also tested neighbors of the affected person in a move to curtail spreading.

  • Saturday, August 31st 2024 - 08:53 UTC

    WHO Director urges governments to work together against mpox

    Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said efforts were underway to facilitate access to vaccines against this disease formerly known as monkeypox

    World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Friday estimated that with proper “government leadership, the mpox outbreak can be over in six months.”

  • Monday, October 16th 2023 - 10:08 UTC

    WHO warns patients in Gaza have been given a death sentence

    “We are ready to deploy supplies as soon as humanitarian access to the Strip is established,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus wrote

    The World Health Organization (WHO) expressed its concern this past weekend regarding the evacuation of patients from northern Gaza and insisted Israel's ultimatum for 1.1 million people to move to the south was tantamount to “a death sentence,” in addition to the risk that the most critically ill might need to be left behind.

  • Thursday, September 7th 2023 - 10:03 UTC

    WHO concerned about Covid-19 cases mounting again

    “Please don't wait to get an additional dose if it is recommended for you,” Tedros stressed

    World Health Organization Director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Wednesday warned of a rise in deaths and admissions to intensive care units (ICU) of patients with Covid-19 and insisted the malady was “here to stay.” Hence, more tools were needed to fight it.

  • Monday, August 7th 2023 - 10:28 UTC

    Sanitary authorities warn of new Covid-19 variant

    ”We urge governments to maintain and not dismantle the systems they built for Covid-19,″ Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said

    Sanitary authorities in the United Kingdom (UK) launched a warning over the new coronavirus version known as EG.5.1 gaining ground, although Arcturus XBB.1.16 remains the most dominant variant, it was reported. The new sublineage is also responsible for 17% of cases in the United States.

  • Wednesday, May 24th 2023 - 10:17 UTC

    WHO forecasts new pandemic, deadlier than Covid-19, is coming up

    Tedros also called on world leaders to take preventive measures to avoid a global meltdown

    World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Tuesday warned of a new pandemic coming up in the near future, which will be deadlier than Covid-19 and would be caused by ”another emerging pathogen with even more deadly potential.” It would be a Covid-19 variant, Tedros also explained.

  • Tuesday, January 31st 2023 - 18:43 UTC

    WHO, US extend Covid-19 emergency

    “Vaccination will remain an essential part of our approach,” Ghebreyesus said

    The US Government announced Monday that the Covid-19 emergency is to be extended until May. The decision came after a World Health Organization (WHO) panel issued a recommendation not to change the current sanitary status given that SARS-CoV- 2 remains a “permanently established pathogen” in humans and animals.

  • Friday, January 27th 2023 - 09:54 UTC

    WHO Committee to declare end of Covid-19 emergency?

    “I remain very concerned about the situation in many countries and the increasing number of deaths,” Tedros said

    An Emergency Committee of the World Health Organization convening Friday might decide to declare the end of the “public health emergency” stemming from Covid-19. The committee's decision is to be announced on Jan. 30.

  • Saturday, September 3rd 2022 - 10:26 UTC

    Dr. Tedros hopeful about future of monkeypox

    “With the right measures, this is an outbreak that can be stopped,” Ghebreyesus said

    World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Friday told reporters that the recent decline in monkeypox cases in North America and Europe proved that shows that the current outbreak of the malady can be stopped.

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