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As director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), navigating uncertainty is part of Tedros Ghebreyesus’ job. Health threats don’t give warnings, and the viruses and pathogens respons ...
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he welcomed the news also with "sorrow" and "caution given that we have had false dawns before, and the deal has not yet been confirmed.” Will TikTok be banned ...
The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, says he and his United Nations colleagues "escaped death narrowly" at Yemen's main airport when Israeli airstrikes targeted ...
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and a United Nation delegation were waiting to board a plane last week at the international airport in Sanaa, the capital of Yemen, when Israel attacked the facility.
Who director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus responded to US President Donald Trump's executive order withdrawing the US from the organization, urging reconsideration. Tedros refuted claims ...
In a media briefing on Wednesday, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus highlighted the consequences of funding suspensions, including disruptions to HIV treatment, setbacks in polio ...
WHO chief Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks at the 78th World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, on May 19, 2025. So what happens to America’s 114 billion pennies once the US stops ...
"I felt unwell yesterday afternoon and was admitted to Samaritano Barra Hospital in Rio, but I was discharged this morning and am back to work," said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Tedros, 59 ...
One year ago, at the seventieth World Health Assembly (WHA), Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was elected the director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO). Tedros’s election made ...
Remembering Dr. Timothy R.B. Johnson, a giant in global women’s health June 4, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.
I have known them all. Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus had been DG for less than a year when he went to Thailand for an award ceremony recognizing leaders in medicine and public health. A group of ...
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who was born in Tigray, said Eritrean forces had killed his uncle and more than 50 others in the region, which has been devastated by civil war. Public health ...