While engaged in relief efforts in the war-ravaged Democratic Republic of the Congo, the World Health Organization is also focusing efforts on data collection and analysis of the rapidly changing situation as a basis for future humanitarian support. Fiona Fleck reports....
"The mpox outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and neighboring countries can be controlled, and can be stopped," said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. According to a WHO statement, a funding appeal will be launched shortly.■...
The WHO relies oncontributions from member states(both assessed and voluntary) and private donors for funding. As of 2018, it has a budget of over $4.2 billion, most of which comes from voluntary contributions from member states. Analysis / Bias In review, the WHO “act as the directing an...
From Senegalese filmmaker Angele Diabang, CONGO: THE DOCTOR WHO SAVES WOMEN offers the intimate testimonies of women who have been treated at Panzi, along with the perspectives of psychologists and doctors who work there. Huddled on a bench in a corridor, facing the wall, Annie-Francoise recoun...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has started an Ebola vaccination program in Butembo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The DRC's health ministry declared a new round of Ebola outbreak last week following a case detected near the city of Butembo in North Kivu Province. Ther...
Health has been damaged, lives have been lost, people and countries in dire economic straits. Yet the WHO, its perpetrator, carries on. Its General Director has now called out another emergency; MPox. Its outbreak is in the Congo. A region in the darkest of Africa with the poorest of th...
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Former CIA pilot Juan Peron, who took on Cuban expeditionary forces in the Congo, says he and his family will not miss arally being put on by Cuban exile organizationsin Miami. "My whole family, three sisters, my brother-in-law, everybody is going over the...
Guilty: Congolese Warlord Who Built an Army of Childrenbut why has the International Criminal Court's first conviction taken six years?The Independent (London, England)
at London art fair Congolese artist who died of malaria to have solo show at London art fairCongolese artist who died of malaria to have solo show at London art fairAnny Shaw
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