The agency’s leaders also urged wealthy nations to take the lead in transferring doses of vaccines to the global South.
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Henrietta Lacks, Whose Cells Were Taken Without Her Consent, Is Honored by W.H.O.
In a ceremony in Geneva, the World Health Organization presented an award to the family of Ms. Lacks, whose cancer cells led to world-changing advances in medical and scientific research.
W.H.O Names Advisory Group to Study Origin of Covid Pandemic
The group includes scientists from 26 countries, a reflection of the W.H.O.’s effort to amass widespread international support for the work.
W.H.O. Workers Abused Women on Mission in Congo, Inquiry Finds
A commission appointed by the health agency found that women and girls had been promised jobs in exchange for relationships or had been sexually exploited in order to keep jobs.
Covid Booster Shots Beginning in Several Nations
The Czech Republic joins several countries to say it will recommend extra shots, while much of the world remains unvaccinated.
The W.H.O. opens a Berlin hub to head off the next pandemic.
“Viruses must move fast, but data can move even faster,” the W.H.O.’s director said in inaugurating the new international project.
W.H.O. Calls for Moratorium on Covid Vaccine Boosters
The organization asked wealthy nations to hold off giving boosters until the end of September because of wide disparities in vaccine supplies and vaccination rates around the world.
Deaths From Covid in Africa Are Rising as Cases Surge Worldwide
“We can prevent this disease, we can test for it, and we can treat it,” said Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization.
W.H.O. Says China Has Eliminated Malaria
The eradication of malaria in the world’s most populous nation offers lessons in how innovative treatments and aggressive tracking can keep the disease in check.
Shi Zhengli, Chinese Virologist, Faces Scrutiny Over Wuhan Lab Research
Shi Zhengli, a top virologist, said in a rare interview that speculation about her lab in Wuhan was baseless. But China’s habitual secrecy makes her claims hard to validate.