population were vaccinated by then. Tedros made the remarks during a visit to a partly state-owned vaccine producer in South Africa on Saturday. He said the World Trade Organization's intellectual property rights agreement on patent waivers was in place for situations like the ...
Speaking at the World Health Organization's executive board meeting on October 6, the agency's Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said "there is hope" that a vaccine against COVID-19 may be ready by the end of this year. During his closing remarks, Tedros called for solidarity an...
Who Needs The COVID-19 Vaccine?doi:10.2139/ssrn.3746101VaccinationVaccinesHealth careCOVID-19In recent days, we have a big debate about who needs the COVID-19 vaccine among different sectors and social groups. We try to evaluate the precise amount of COSocial Science Electronic Publishing...
"Export bans and vaccine hoarding have a chokehold on vaccine supplies to Africa. As long as rich countries lock COVAX out of the market, Africa will miss its vaccination goals," said Dr Matshidiso Moeti, World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Director for Africa. The nu...
WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that “while COVID-19 accelerates very fast, it decelerates much more slowly.” The World Health Organization on Monday said the mitigation measures related to the coronavirus pandemic must be lifted slowly and on...
COVID-19 vaccination development and delivery has been "quite extraordinary," says the World Health Organization's public health physician Margaret Harris, who pointed to the big strides made in understanding the virus in such a short amount of time. The numbers are gr...
Apprehensions between ports of entry along the southern border have fallen sharply since President Donald Trump returned to the White House. Elliott Davis Jr.May 12, 2025 Tracking Illegal Border Crossings The new pricing policy seeks to reduce the cost the government pays fo...
GENEVA, May 19 (Xinhua) -- The World Health Organization (WHO) validated on Thursday the CONVIDECIA COVID-19 vaccine developed by Chinese developer CanSino Biologics for emergency use, making it the third Chinese vaccine after Sinopharm and Sinopec having been certified by WHO Emergency Use Listin...
“The Technical Advisory Group for Emergency Use Listing, convened by WHO and made up of regulatory experts from around the world, has determined that the vaccine meets WHO standards for protection against COVID-19 and that the benefits of the vaccine far outweigh risks,“ the statement said....
WHO: Europe Entering 'Plausible Endgame' to COVID Pandemic More The Associated Press FILE - Hans Kluge, Regional Director for Europe at the World Health Organization (WHO) hold a press conference with Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto, right, at the Ministry...