Mother and healthy baby in a family planning clinic in the Oromiyaa region of Ethiopia.
The new director-general of the World Health Organization will determine the future of the UN body that missed the 2014 Ebola epidemic till it raged out of control but which must protect the world from tomorrow's threats. They include pandemics, diseases that resist all known antibiotics, the growing health toll of climate change and the scourge of problems that plague - and destabilize - the planet's poor.
Mother and healthy baby in a family planning clinic in the Oromiyaa region of Ethiopia.
Former British Secretary for International Development and Member of Parliament Andrew Mitchell has parted with the government of Teresa May to support Ethiopia's former health ... Read more »
Dr. Tedros Adhanom speaking during 'Africa Day' celebrations in Geneva African Union leaders reaffirmed support for the former Ethiopian health and foreign minister to be the next director-general of the World Health Organization.
The report of an independent panel convened by the Harvard Global Health Institute and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, published in the British medical journal ... Read more »
As new Ebola infections continue to rise 'exponentially' in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, a private-sector initiative that began months ago is growing and is forging ties with ... Read more »
Tami Hultman spent time with an American woman in September in Kigali who had recently been in Lofa County, Liberia, an Ebola hot spot bordering the village in Guinea where the ... Read more »
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