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CDC Allows Novavax Monovalent COVID-19 Boosters for Adults Ages 18 and Older
Today, CDC's Director Rochelle P. Walensky, M.D., M.P.H., signed a decision memo allowing Novavax monovalent COVID-19 boosters for adults.
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CDC Allows Novavax Monovalent COVID-19 Boosters for Adults Ages 18 and Older
Today, CDC's Director Rochelle P. Walensky, M.D., M.P.H., signed a decision memo allowing Novavax monovalent COVID-19 boosters for adults.
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In strategic dialogues, the United States and WHO seek to maximize their longstanding partnership
Washington – WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra agreed Tuesday to develop a work plan in 2023 to tackle shared priorities, chief among them the world’s health security and pandemic prepared...
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Joint statement of the United States of America and the World Health Organization on the U.S.-WHO strategic dialogue
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus held the first U.S.-WHO Strategic Dialogue.
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Federal Health Agencies Unveil National Tool to Measure Health Impacts of Environmental Burdens
Today, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), in partnership with the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Environmental Justice, announce the release of the Environmental Justice Ind...
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Federal Health Agencies Unveil National Tool to Measure Health Impacts of Environmental Burdens
Today, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), in partnership with the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Environmental Justice, announce the release of the Environmental Justice Ind...
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Big tobacco's environmental impact is 'devastating': WHO
The tobacco industry is a far greater threat than many realise as it is one of the world's biggest polluters, from leaving mountains of waste to driving global warming, the WHO said Tuesday.
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Report by Mr Bjӧrn Kümmel, Chair of the WHO Sustainable Financing Working Group, to the Seventy-five World Health Assembly
As you know, the working group was established by the EB in January last year, in order to enable the WHO to have the robust structure needed to fulfil the Member States expectations. Already at the start of this long journey, there were a general notion, that there is a huge ...
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Ukraine next country to receive technology from the WHO mRNA technology transfer hub
Ukraine has joined the growing list of countries that will receive support from the global WHO mRNA technology transfer hub in South Africa. The manufacturer, Darnitsa, was evaluated by WHO and found to have the potential to be able to absorb the mRNA technology to produce vac...
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New Zealand and WHO: partnering for a healthier future
Geneva, 25 February 2022 – On the occasion of the Human Rights Council, Minister of Foreign Affairs of New Zealand, Honourable Nanaia Mahuta, met for the first time with Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General. The objective of the meeting, which took place at the ...
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Donors and WHO discuss the transformative impact of the Contingency Fund for Emergencies
The Ministry of Health and health authorities respond to Ebola outbreak in North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo with WHO support. ©WHO/AFROGeneva, 2 February 2022 - Contributors to the WHO's Contingency Fund for Emergencies (CFE) met today with WHO representative...
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COVAX delivers its 1 billionth COVID-19 vaccine dose
On 15 January 2022, a shipment of 1.1 million COVID-19 vaccines to Rwanda included the billionth dose supplied via COVAX.Together with our partners, COVAX is leading the largest vaccine procurement and supply operation in history, with deliveries to 144 countries to date.But t...
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WHO recommends two new drugs to treat COVID-19
WHO has recommended two new drugs for COVID-19, providing yet more options for treating the disease. The extent to which these medicines will save lives depends on how widely available and affordable they will be.The first drug, baricitinib, is strongly recommended for patient...
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Launch of the WHO Bulletin theme issue on behavioural science
The Bulletin of the World Health Organization is a fully open-access journal of public health with a special focus on low and middle-income countries. In November 2021 (Volume 99(11); 2021 Nov 1), a special theme issue on behavioural and social science for better health was pu...
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Belgium and WHO sign new agreement to increase global equitable access to essential health products and technologies
On 16 December 2021 the Government of Belgium and WHO signed a new €8 million multiyear contribution agreement for the period 2021-2025, to support increasing global equitable access to health products and health technologies globally. This contribution will focus on equitable...