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Tag: World Health Organization
WHO Warns of ‘Bloodbath’ in Rafah
The World Health Organization said in a statement Friday that an Israeli incursion into Rafah in southern Gaza would lead to “substantial additional mortality and morbidity.”
Doctors in Gaza Respond
The medical providers called on the WHO and rights groups to hold accountable the group of Israeli physicians who betrayed their profession by endorsing the bombing of a hospital in Gaza.
WHO: A ‘Death Sentence for Sick and Injured’ in Gaza
“Forcing more than 2000 patients to relocate to southern Gaza, where health facilities are already running at maximum capacity and unable to absorb a dramatic rise in the number of patients, could be tantamount to a death sentence.”
UN: 122 Million Pushed into Hunger Since 2019
In the latest report by five U.N. agencies, the climate emergency, armed conflicts and the Covid-19 pandemic are seen pushing the global goal of eradicating hunger further out of reach.
COVID-19: US, WHO & Vaccine Nationalism
The Biden administration can help end the mockery that has been made of the international community’s “no one left behind” slogan, writes Jomo Kwame Sundaram.
COVID-19: Trump Quits the World Health Organization; the Victim is the United States
After Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of WHO on Friday, the reputation of the agency has been damaged far less than the image of the United States, argues Barbara Crossette.
COVID-19: How Trustworthy and Humane is Sweden’s Pandemic Strategy?
Sweden’s Covid-19 strategy has been lauded by anti-lockdown activists who favor herd immunity, but a prominent Swedish professor of epidemiology questions just how humane and trustworthy that strategy has been.
COVID-19: Nearly 200,000 Africans Could Die From Pandemic, WHO Warns
Africa has so far been sparred the worst of the coronavirus, but trouble is ahead if measures aren’t taken, says the WHO.
COVID-19: What Trump’s Funding Cuts to WHO Mean for World
An irony of the situation is that the international health authority has been criticized for decades for being too influenced by the U.S., writes Adam Kamradt-Scott.