Health Jul 01 African officials treating monkeypox spread as an emergency, call for equitable vaccine distribution Health authorities in Africa say they are treating the expanding monkeypox outbreak here as an emergency and call on rich countries to share the world's limited supply of vaccines. By Farai Mutsaka, Associated Press
Nation Jun 29 WHO chief says U.S. abortion ruling is ‘a setback’ and will cost lives The head of the World Health Organization has criticized the U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called the decision to no longer recognize a constitutional right to abortion “a setback” that would… By Associated Press
Health Jun 23 WHO considers declaring growing monkeypox outbreak a global health emergency The World Health Organization convenes its emergency committee Thursday to consider if the spiraling outbreak of monkeypox warrants being declared a global emergency. By Maria Cheng, Associated Press
World May 30 WHO’s top monkeypox expert says disease unlikely to become global pandemic The World Health Organization's top monkeypox expert said she doesn't expect the hundreds of cases reported to date to turn into another pandemic, but acknowledged there are still many unknowns about the disease, including how exactly it's spreading and whether… By Maria Cheng, Associated Press
May 27 WHO calls monkeypox outbreaks containable, proposes stockpile to share vaccines and treatment By Maria Cheng, Associated Press The World Health Organization says nearly 200 cases of monkeypox have been reported in more than 20 countries not usually known to have outbreaks of the unusual disease, but described the epidemic as “containable."… Continue reading
May 26 WHO says COVID-19 cases are falling globally, except in the Americas By Associated Press In its latest weekly assessment, the U.N. health agency said there were more than 3.7 million new infections and 9,000 deaths in the last week, drops of 3 percent and 11 percent respectively. Continue reading
May 23 What you need to know about monkeypox and how it spreads By Maria Cheng, Associated Press European and American health authorities have identified a number of cases of monkeypox, a surprising outbreak of an illness that has previously been limited mostly to central and western Africa. Continue reading
May 22 COVID-19 pandemic ‘not over’ with nearly 1 billion unvaccinated globally, WHO chief says By Associated Press In a weekly report Thursday on the global situation, WHO said the number of new COVID-19 cases appears to have stabilized after weeks of decline since late March, while the overall number of weekly deaths dropped. Continue reading
May 05 WHO estimates nearly 15 million deaths associated with COVID, more than double official toll By Maria Cheng, Associated Press The World Health Organization is estimating that nearly 15 million people were killed either by the coronavirus or by its impact on overwhelmed health systems in the past two years. Continue reading