Reaching the Last Mile: January 30th to Mark the Second Annual World NTD Day
Annual day designed to raise awareness and engage the general public in the urgent effort to BeatNTDs
Following a year of unprecedented global health awareness due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the day aims to draw broader public awareness to the fight to end NTDs
The WHO Executive Board recommended support of World NTD Day, an important milestone in adding the day to the official global calendar
Inspired by the new WHO NTD Roadmap, the day will emphasize the critical need for partnerships and cross-industry collaboration to bring an end to this group of preventable diseases
World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was one of many global health leaders who spoke bluntly about the pandemic at annual meetings that conclude on Tuesday. Discussing the lack of priority given to vaccines for poor countries, he stated, The world is on the brink of a catastrophic moral failure.
How to make sure the world is never so devastated by another pandemic?
Health officials from around the globe have been vigorously discussing that question over the past week at the annual meeting of the World Health Organization s Executive Board. The members, whose nine-day-long, mostly virtual gathering concludes on Tuesday, have heard recommendations from four separate panels.
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How to make sure the world is never so devastated by another pandemic?
Health officials from around the globe have been vigorously discussing that question over the past week at the annual meeting of the World Health Organization’s Executive Board. The members, whose nine-day-long, mostly virtual gathering concludes on Tuesday, have heard recommendations from four separate panels.
Some of these panels are high-powered, such as an independent advisory committee set up by the WHO to look at pandemic preparedness and led by former Liberian president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark.
Biden overturns Trump ban on transgender people serving in U.S. military
WASHINGTON, Jan 25 (Reuters) - President Joe Biden on Monday signed an executive order that overturned a controversial ban by his predecessor on transgender individuals serving in the U.S. military, a move cheered by LGBTQ advocates that fulfills a campaign promise.
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Anger and grief as United Kingdom s COVID-19 death toll nears 100,000
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The World Health Organization (WHO), under the leadership of its China-centric Director General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (Tedros for short), has not reformed its ways since the Trump administration took steps to withdraw the United States from the globalist organization. Nevertheless, Joe Biden signed an executive order on Day One of his presidency, which fully re-engages the United States with the World Health Organization. In doing so, the sleepy âwokeâ 46th president of the United States is rewarding an incompetent global governance body that helped the Chinese regime cover up the severity of the coronavirus it unleashed upon the world.