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World Health Organization recommends malaria vaccine be given to children across Africa

By Maria Cheng, Associated Press

WHO recommended Wednesday that the world's first malaria vaccine should be given to children across Africa, in a move officials hope will spur stalled efforts to curb the spread of the parasitic disease.

Panel finds 80 alleged abuse cases tied to WHO’s Congo work

By Maria Cheng, Al-Hadji Kudra Maliro, Associated Press

The report exposes the most widescale sexual wrongdoing linked to a U.N. institution in years, harkening back to the dark years when blue-helmeted peacekeepers were regularly accused of and found to have misused their positions for sexual misconduct.

U.N. health agency sets higher, tougher bar for air quality

By Jamey Keaten, Drew Costley, Associated Press

The World Health Organization is setting a higher bar for policymakers and the public in its first update to its air quality guidelines in 15 years.

WHO aims to get Africa 30 percent of needed doses by February

By Associated Press

WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has called the vast disparity in vaccination rates between rich and poor countries a “solvable problem.”…

WHO chief urges halt to booster shots for rest of the year

By Associated Press

World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is calling on rich countries with large supplies of coronavirus vaccines to refrain from offering booster shots through the end of the year.

WATCH: WHO to test three existing drugs for use with COVID

By Associated Press

The World Health Organization said Wednesday it will soon begin testing three drugs currently used for other diseases to see if they might help patients suffering from the coronavirus.

Head of U.N. health agency seeks vaccine booster moratorium

By Jamey Keaten, Associated Press

WHO officials say the science is unproven about whether giving booster shots to people who have already received two vaccine doses is effective in preventing the spread of the coronavirus.

WATCH: WHO reports 80 percent rise in infections in last four weeks

By Associated Press

The World Health Organization warned on Friday of the vast spread of the delta variant of the coronavirus and said it should serve as a "call to action" to speed up vaccination around the world before "more variants emerge."…

China won’t accept WHO’s second phase plan to study COVID-19 origins

By Ken Moritsugu, Associated Press

China's vice minister of the country's National Health Commission said he was "rather taken aback" that the plan includes further investigation of the theory that the virus might have leaked from a Chinese lab.

WHO chief says it was ‘premature’ to rule out COVID lab leak

By Frank Jordans, Maria Cheng, Associated Press

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said getting access to raw data had been a challenge for the international team that traveled to China earlier this year to investigate the source of COVID-19.