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Africa: Covid-19 Has Shown Sustainable Financing of WHO Is Needed to Deliver Health for All
WHO, 25 January 2022
Ahead of a crucial meeting of the World Health Organization's Executive Board starting 24 January 2022, leaders who have examined WHO's financial health explain why making the… Read more »
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WHO, 19 January 2022
The tenth meeting of the Emergency Committee convened by the WHO Director-General under the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR) regarding the coronavirus disease… Read more »
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Africa: WHO Director-General's Opening Remarks At the Media Briefing On Covid-19 - 18 January 2022
WHO, 18 January 2022
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'Covid-19 Has Shown Sustainable Financing of WHO Is Needed'
Leaders who have examined the World Health Organisation's (WHO) financial health explained why making the world safer and healthier means WHO's member states must tackle its long-term funding challenge.
WHO's funding needs have recently been highlighted by multiple independent reviews into the pandemic response, and are now under the spotlight of governments which are discussing how to make WHO better able to deliver on the mandate they have given it.
The need to make WHO financially fit for purpose was also stressed by G20 leaders who acknowledged that "an adequately and sustainably funded WHO" was needed to deliver on work to lead and coordinate global health.
As of January 28, 2022, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached 10,669,963 while over 210,635,964 vaccinations have been administered across the continent.
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Of its 13 million habitants, Rwanda has fully vaccinated 40% against Covid-19. This coverage milestone puts the country on track for meeting further vaccination global targets set by the World Health Organization. In May 2021, WHO Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, set three targets of which Rwanda has reached the first of 10% inoculation by September and the second of 40% by the end of 2021.
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According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), Africa recorded an n 83% surge in new Covid-19 cases during the second week of December, 2021. Driven by the Delta and the Omicron variants, the rise in infections has also been recorded alongside
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