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The Israeli strikes on Sanaa left the airport control tower a blackened shell.

WHO chief caught up in Israeli airstrike ‘lesson’ on Yemen

“The Houthis will also learn what Hamas, Hezbollah, the Assad regime have learned. This lesson will be understood across the Middle East,” the Israeli PM said.

  • Daniel Hardaker and Jotam Confino

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rDr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organisation (WHO)

WHO declares mpox global health emergency over

The disease wasn’t known to spark big outbreaks beyond the continent or to spread easily among people until last May, when dozens of epidemics emerged in Europe, North America and elsewhere.

  • Maria Cheng
World Health Organization director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

WHO says end of COVID in sight, deaths at lowest since March 2020

In its weekly report on the pandemic, the UN health agency said deaths fell by 22 per cent in the past week, at just over 11,000 reported worldwide.

World Health Organisation  Director General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus during a meeting of the United Nations Security Council this month.

WHO lays out plan to emerge from COVID’s emergency phase

To help end the emergency, WHO called on countries to continue or increase virus surveillance capabilities to allow for early warning signs of significant changes in the virus.

  • Julie Steenhuysen and Mrinalika Roy
WHO head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who has called on countries to pull together and act fast to stop the spread of the new coronavirus.

‘Conditions ideal for more variants’: WHO boss warns against talk of COVID ‘endgame’

The head of the World Health Organisation says conditions remain ideal for more coronavirus variants to emerge and that it’s dangerous to assume Omicron will be the last one.

World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

Pandemic vaccine treaty a step closer

The decision means a legally binding response convention that would determine a fairer production and distribution of vaccines for the next pandemic could be implemented in early 2024.

  • Latika Bourke
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WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

Before the next pandemic, the world needs a new vaccine treaty: WHO chief

Member states are meeting next week to begin discussions on a new pandemic treaty that former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark says could be agreed in as soon as six months.

  • Latika Bourke
A young girl from Tondo, Manila, is seen in a Likhaan clinic for her free HPV vaccination.

Follow Australia’s lead: WHO calls for help in global cervical cancer fight

Australia is on track to eliminate cervical cancer by 2035, but is being called upon to do more to help prevent the deaths of a woman every 30 seconds from the disease.

  • Latika Bourke
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus will retain the top job.

Tedros to be renamed WHO boss after going unchallenged

Dr Tedros will retain the top job at the WHO despite coming under heavy criticism for the body’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.

  • Latika Bourke
Young children in the Malawi village of Tomali were test subjects for the world’s first vaccine against malaria, which has now been approved by the WHO.

UN experts approve first malaria vaccine in major breakthrough

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

  • Maria Cheng

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