World Health Organization

WHO Chief: World Treats Crises Affecting Blacks And Whites Differently

There’s a bias against Black lives as the world fails to treat ‘the human race the same way,‘ Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says.
04/14/2022
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WHO Announces ‘Omicron Coronavirus’ Variant; U.S. To Restrict Travel From South Africa

The mutation has affected several countries.
11/26/2021

This Woman Is the First American Doctor Charged With Performing Female Genital Mutilation

Dr. Nagarwala reportedly operated on girls as young as 6.
04/14/2017

Obama Names Ebola 'Czar' as Precautions Expand

Ron Klain to report to National Security Adviser Susan Rice.
10/17/2014

West Africans Get Creative With Ebola Awareness Campaigns

Ideas include a soapy spin on the ice bucket challenge.
08/28/2014
WHO Says Its Ethical for Untested Drugs to Be Used on Patients

Global Week in Review: Untested Drugs Now Ethical for Treating Ebola Patients

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Liberian Doctors to Receive Experimental Ebola Drug

These are the first Africans to get the untested treatment.
08/12/2014

As Ebola Spread Outpaces Control Effort, WHO Plans $100 Million Response

More than 700 people have died, including 40 health workers.
08/01/2014
Blacks Worry About Privacy With Genetic Testing for Alcoholism

Health Rewind: Why Don’t Blacks Want Genetic Testing for Alcoholism?

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Ebola Outbreak Spreads to Liberia, Sierra Leone

Ebola Crisis in West Africa Worsens, Kills More Than 500

The outbreak is now the largest on record.
07/14/2014
Bus Bombs Wounds 60 in Kenya

Global Week in Review: Boko Haram Threatens to Sell Nigerian Girls

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