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Sep
23
2021
By The African Mirror
Germany seeks backing for Tedros at WHO helm as Africa quiet – diplomats

Germany seeks backing for Tedros at WHO helm as Africa quiet – diplomats

NEWS
STEPHANIE NEBEHAY, ANDREAS RINKE and GUILIA PARAVICINI GERMANY is seeking support from other European Union members to ensure a second term for Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at the helm of the World Health Organisation, but African states have yet to show their cards, government sources and diplomats said. The deadline for proposing candidates in the politically charged race is Thursday at 1600 GMT and no other candidate for the election in May is known to have surfaced, they said. Tedros, who was elected as WHO's first African director-general in May 2017, has been shunned this time by his native Ethiopia due…
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Sep
18
2021
By The African Mirror
WHO’s Tedros to run unopposed for top job

WHO’s Tedros to run unopposed for top job

NEWS
EMMA FARGE, FRANSESCO GUARASCIO and GULIA PARAVICINI THE World Health Organization's chief looks set to run unopposed for a second term at the helm as tries to guide the world through its biggest health crisis in a century, sources said. However, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus lacks the support of his native Ethiopia due to friction over the Tigray conflict, the sources told Reuters. Exactly how he will be nominated ahead of the deadline for nominations next week is unclear amid opposition from the Addis Ababa government, they said. An Ethiopian former health minister from the Tigray region, Tedros became the WHO's…
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Sep
15
2021
By The African Mirror
Less than 3.5 % of Africans vaccinated against COVID

Less than 3.5 % of Africans vaccinated against COVID

COVID-19
LESS than 3.5% of Africans are vaccinated against COVID-19, far short of its official target of 60%, John Nkengasong, director of Africa's Centers for Disease Control, said on Tuesday. World Health Organization head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at the same briefing that the continent was being "left behind by the rest of the world" and that this would allow the coronavirus to keep circulating.
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Sep
03
2021
By The African Mirror
SAfrica’s Aspen seeks licence for J&J COVID shot as EU shipments halted

SAfrica’s Aspen seeks licence for J&J COVID shot as EU shipments halted

COVID-19
PROMIT MUKHERJEE and MAGGIE FICK ASPEN Pharmacare is in talks to make Johnson & Johnson's coronavirus shot under licence in South Africa, at what would be the continent's first major independent distribution base for a global vaccine against COVID-19, the company has announced. News of the talks coincided with the suspension of heavily criticised shipments to Europe from Africa of the same shot, which is already being made under contract and packaged by Aspen but distributed by J&J. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said last month he was "stunned" by that arrangement, since Europe has very high inoculation rates while…
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Sep
02
2021
By The African Mirror
WHO boss’ caution on boosters

WHO boss’ caution on boosters

COVID-19
THE World Health Organisation recommends against using spare doses of COVID-19 vaccine to give booster shots to countries' fully-vaccinated populations since the priority is to ensure the global population is vaccinated, the agency's head said. Speaking in Berlin at the opening of a new epidemic intelligence hub, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus urged countries with spare vaccines available to donate any deliveries they received in the near term to COVAX or other initiatives aimed at sharing doses with poorer countries. "For now, we do not want to see widespread use of boosters for healthy people who are fully vaccinated," he said.…
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Jun
26
2021
By The African Mirror
Just give us the vaccines, WHO pleads, as poor countries go wanting

Just give us the vaccines, WHO pleads, as poor countries go wanting

COVID-19
MICHAEL SHIELDS and STEPHANIE NEBEHAY RICH countries are opening up societies and vaccinating young people who are not at great risk from COVID-19, while the poorest countries cruelly lack doses, the World Health Organization said yesterday, condemning a global failure. The situation in Africa, where new infections and deaths jumped by nearly 40% last week compared to the previous week, is "so dangerous" as the Delta variant spreads globally, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said. "Our world is failing, as the global community we are failing," he told a news conference. Tedros, who is Ethiopian, chastised unnamed countries for reluctance…
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Jun
26
2021
By The African Mirror
Victims of Ethiopia air strike denied access to care – Tedros

Victims of Ethiopia air strike denied access to care – Tedros

NEWS
WORLD Health Organisation chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has accused authorities in Ethiopia of blocking ambulances from reaching scores of victims of an air strike this week, a rare case of speaking out in his official capacity about the conflict in his homeland. Tedros, who is an ethnic Tigrayan and former Ethiopian Cabinet minister, referred in his opening remarks at a WHO briefing to the air strike this week which hit a crowded market in his native region. The federal government has been waging war against fighters loyal to the former regional authorities since last year. "Ambulances were blocked for more…
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Jun
22
2021
By The African Mirror
Africa to make own COVID-19 vaccines

Africa to make own COVID-19 vaccines

COVID-19
THE World Health Organization (WHO) is setting up a technology transfer hub for producing mRNA COVID-19 vaccines in South Africa, which could start manufacturing doses in 9 to 12 months. WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus made the announcement aimed at boosting access to vaccines across the African continent, where cases and deaths had increased by almost 40% over the past week. "Today I am delighted to announce that WHO is in discussions with a consortium of companies and institutions to establish a technology transfer hub in South Africa," Tedros told a news conference. "The consortium involves a company Afrigen Biologics…
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Jun
20
2021
By The African Mirror
Guinea declares end to Ebola outbreak

Guinea declares end to Ebola outbreak

NEWS
AN Ebola outbreak which started in Guinea in February, infecting 16 people and killing 12, has been declared over, the health ministry and the World Health Organization announced yesterday. Health authorities were able to move swiftly to tackle the resurgence of the virus, which causes severe bleeding and organ failure and is spread through contact with body fluids, after lessons learned from previous outbreaks in Guinea and the Democratic Republic of Congo. "Based on the lessons learned from the 2014–16 outbreak and through rapid, coordinated response efforts... Guinea managed to control the outbreak and prevent its spread beyond its borders,"…
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Jun
08
2021
By The African Mirror
WHO optimistic about African vaccine sites

WHO optimistic about African vaccine sites

COVID-19
WORLD Health Organization head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus hopes African COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing sites will be identified and some even close to producing by the end of 2021, in the race to deliver more shots to the continent. While Tedros did not provide specifics on which country, Reuters has reported that Senegal could begin producing COVID-19 vaccines next year under an agreement with Belgian biotech group Univercells aimed at boosting Africa's drug-manufacturing ambitions. Tedros also called on companies including Pfizer and Moderna whose vaccines rely on so-called mRNA technology to share their knowledge with the WHO's COVID-19 Technology Access Pool, which…
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