Prominent UK Conservative Endorses Africa's Choice to Lead WHO

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 minister Tedros over UK candidate David Nabarro in tomorrow's election for Director-General of the World Health Organization.

Then British Prime Minister David Cameron, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and then UK Secretary for International for International Development Andrew Mitchell at a 2011 vaccine alliance conference to promote childhood immunizations.

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