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A Pakistani woman with tuberculosis holds different antibiotics. Around 1.5 million people in Pakistan suffer from the illness, which is increasingly becoming drug-resistant.

World leaders commit to action to ensure the future of modern medicine

The goal is to reduce global deaths associated with drug-resistant bacteria by 10% by 2030 and ensure that at least 70% of antibiotics used globally belong to the safer WHO Access group

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus 27 September 2024

Cookies. Pizza. Cake. All are delicious but can also contain a toxic ingredient that kills almost 300,000 people from coronary heart disease each year: industrially produced trans fat.

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The battle to get rid of trans fats...forever

A hidden killer in the global food supply

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Tom Frieden 15 July 2024

The unprecedented nature of the pandemic requires an unprecedented response. The World Health Assembly must not squander the opportunity to adopt the Pandemic Accord.

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A global health pact is vital to protect future generations

The unprecedented nature of the pandemic requires an unprecedented response. The World Health Assembly must not squander the opportunity to adopt the Pandemic Accord.

Gordon Brown 25 February 2024

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Tedros Ghebreyesus and Volker Türk: Rights must be placed at the center of conflict prevention

Conflict and crisis reveal the tip of the iceberg the world's vulnerable face in accessing their right to health

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At COP28, we can help transform the entire climate finance infrastructure for impact. We are calling on international financial institutions and multilateral development banks to help.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber and Vanessa Kerry 03 November 2023

A worker in a protective suit walks near a plane of Air China airlines at Beijing Capital International Airport as coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreaks continue in Beijing, China January 6, 2023. REUTERS/Thomas Peter

Chinese Fret Over Elderly As WHO Warns of Holiday COVID Surge

People in China worried on Thursday about spreading COVID-19 to aged relatives as they planned returns to their hometowns for holidays that the World Health Organization warns could inflame a raging…

12 January 2023

Passengers walk through the International arrivals area of Terminal 5 in London's Heathrow Airport, Britain, August 2, 2021. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls

WHO Urges Travellers to Wear Masks as New COVID Variant Spreads

Countries should consider recommending that passengers wear masks on long-haul flights, given the rapid spread of the latest Omicron subvariant of COVID-19 in the United States, World Health…

11 January 2023

Patients lie on beds in a hallway in the emergency department of Zhongshan Hospital, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Shanghai, China January 3, 2023. REUTERS/Staff

China Media Plays Down COVID Severity As WHO Seeks Detail On Variants

State media in China played down the severity of a surge of COVID-19 infections ahead of a briefing on Tuesday by its scientists to the World Health Organization, which was hoping for a "detailed…

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People line up next to a medical worker in a protective suit, at a fever clinic of a hospital amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Beijing, China December 15, 2022. REUTERS/Josh Arslan

China Pushes Vaccines As Retreat From 'Zero-COVID' Turns Messy

China raced to vaccinate its most vulnerable people on Thursday in anticipation of waves of COVID-19 infections, with some analysts expecting the death toll to soar after it eased strict controls…

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A general view shows a sign post of Kitebi Health Centre 3 in the Lubaga division amid the Ebola outbreak in Kampala, Uganda. REUTERS/Abubaker Lubowa

Uganda Receives 1,200 Doses of Ebola Vaccine Candidates for Trials

A shipment of 1,200 doses of Ebola vaccine candidates set to be used in a clinical trial have arrived in Uganda, where an outbreak has infected 142 people and killed at least 56, health authorities…

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World leaders commit to action to ensure the future of modern medicine

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Why climate change is a threat to global health

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