Venezuela’s acting president, Delcy Rodriguez, announced on Wednesday, February 25, the activation of a National Yellow Fever Immunization Plan aimed at containing an outbreak that has recently spread across Latin America and reached Venezuelan territory. Following a working meeting with the representative of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) in the country, Dr. Armando De […]

The State will share its expertise and laboratories to address international outbreaks and prevent global health threats. On Tuesday, the State of New York announced it joined the World Health Organization (WHO), following the United States’ withdrawal ordered by President Donald Trump upon his return to the White House. RELATED: The United States withdraws from […]

The decision comes amid an unprecedented health crisis, exacerbating the suffering of civilians and drastically limiting access to essential medical care.

“Withdrawing from the WHO is a loss for the United States and the rest of the world,” said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General.

“Controlling and eradicating this Ebola outbreak in three months is a remarkable achievement,” declared Mohamed Janabi, WHO Regional Director for Africa.

The health minister of the African country, Sílvia Lutucuta, reported that school vaccination coverage reached 95% among girls aged 9 to 12.

The World Food Programme’s deputy executive director Carl Skau has condemned the latest bloodshed in Sudan’s Darfur region, calling the events in El-Fasher a stark reminder of the accelerating collapse across the country. RELATED: Sudanese Army Withdraws from El Fasher, RSF Claims Full Control of Darfur Speaking from Addis Ababa, Skau warned that the crisis […]

The World Health Organization (WHO) announced that the first two patients to recover from the Ebola outbreak declared on September 4 in Kasai province, in the center of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), were discharged on Tuesday. RELATED: WHO Urges Swift Action as Ebola Outbreak Spreads in Southern Congo “The first two patients cured […]

The agency is launching an immunization campaign after confirming an outbreak with at least 16 deaths in Kasai state.

Congo’s first Ebola outbreak in Kasai since 2008 has killed 16 people. The WHO warns that without urgent support, containment could fail within weeks.