The Venezuelan Ministry of Health reported last week that the country is maintaining epidemiological surveillance at ports and airports after the World Health Organization declared the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.

The WHO issued the alert “due to the spread of the Bundibugyo variant, a strain of the virus that is currently being monitored by global health authorities.”

In this regard, Venezuelan health authorities have issued relevant recommendations for citizens planning international travel in the near future.

The Ministry of Health details “basic biosecurity measures, such as frequent handwashing and the recommendation to avoid direct contact with people exhibiting health conditions. Likewise, the ministry urged travelers to immediately go to authorized medical centers if they experience symptoms associated with fever or general malaise.”

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In its recent “Global Report on Antibiotic Resistance Surveillance 2025,” the World Health Organization warns of growing resistance to common antibiotics globally.

According to the document, “one in six laboratory-confirmed bacterial infections that caused common infections in people worldwide in 2023 was resistant to antibiotic treatment.”

Statistics reveal that between 2018 and 2023, antibiotic resistance increased in more than 40 % of “monitored pathogen-antibiotic combinations, with an average annual increase of 5 to 15 percent.” The report was based on data reported to the organization’s Global Antimicrobial Resistance and Use Surveillance System (GLASS) in more than 100 countries.

For the first time, it presents “estimates of the prevalence of resistance to 22 antibiotics used to treat urinary tract and gastrointestinal infections, bloodstream infections, and those used to treat gonorrhea.”

According to this document, drug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria are increasingly dangerous worldwide, with the greatest impact on nations least equipped to respond.

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Although the threat of a monkeypox (MPOX) outbreak remains, the World Health Organization decided to lift the international emergency due to the decrease in cases.

“The African Union, through its Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, maintains the continental alert” as a measure to protect the population.

The disease has affected more than 150,000 people since 2022, with at least 377 deaths. The announcement of the MPOX international emergency lifting was made on Friday, September 5, by the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, highlighting the decline in cases “in particularly affected countries such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, Sierra Leone, and Uganda.”

However, he emphasized that “the lifting of the emergency does not mean that the threat is over or that our response will stop.”

Monkeypox “was the second international emergency due to this viral disease that the WHO had declared, following the one it declared between 2022 and 2023. In that case, numerous cases also occurred in European and American countries, while this time the outbreaks were primarily limited to African nations.”

The WHO president insisted that this is not the time to reduce investment, collaboration, and solidarity, particularly in health care in the most affected countries on the African continent.

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The World Health Organization (WHO) will address the US funding cut by cutting its departments and management teams in half.

US President Donald Trump has announced tariffs and funding cuts since the start of his second term. He also announced the country’s withdrawal from the WHO, “which has left the organization in a financial turmoil and forced it to rethink its next biennial budget (2026-2027), reducing it to $4.2 billion, down from the $5.3 billion initially planned.”

As a measure to address this crisis, the organization will downsize its departments and lay off its management team to reduce expenses.

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The World Health Organization announced a one-year alliance with the TikTok video platform to offer reliable health information, based on scientific data.

The international organization announced the cooperation with TikTok, pointing out the importance of providing accurate data to the population in an increasingly digital world.

With this step, the WHO demonstrates its commitment to “take advantage of the various digital communication platforms to reach a greater number of people around the world, in order to promote basic health knowledge and healthy behaviors and actions in an increasingly digitalized world,” as published on its website.

In addition, it has stressed that social networks “can be important sources of information that influence decisions and behaviors related to health. One in four young adults actively seek out informative content on social media, including TikTok.”

The WHO-TikTok partnership seeks to minimize misinformation by “promoting evidence-based content and encouraging positive health dialogues.”

This cooperation is expected to serve as a turning point in the way digital platforms strengthen their social responsibility.

Dr. Jeremy Farrar, WHO’s chief scientist, said: “By collaborating with TikTok and other social media, we are contributing to access to credible information and participation in scientific discourse that collectively helps shape a healthier future for all people.”

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The World Health Organization (WHO) announced this Monday a new project to produce vaccines against avian flu with the help of messenger RNA (mRNA) technology; the same one used in the case of Covod-19.

Leading the project is the Argentine biopharmaceutical company Sinergium Biotech, with the support of the WHO and other organizations that take advantage of mRNA technology, as it allows for faster and more flexible production of vaccines.

With this new project, the WHO and others involved will seek to establish a global mRNA vaccine production network to respond more quickly and effectively to future pandemics, considering that avian flu could be a serious public health threat if it became a pandemic.

Thanks to this project, the capacity of low-income countries to develop and produce their own vaccines will be strengthened, reducing dependence on other countries and strengthening research and production areas in the pharmaceutical area.

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The director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has announced that the WHO has declared the end of the global health emergency by Covid-19.

“Yesterday, the Emergency Committee met for the fifteenth time and recommended that I declare the end of the public health emergency of international concern. I have accepted that advice,” he said.

“It has been a decision taken with caution. I will not hesitate to declare the emergency again if the situation changes,” Tedros said.

The WHO director general emphasized the understanding that the pandemic has not come to an end. Covid-19 has left, in just over three years, affected 765 million people and has caused the death of 20 million across the planet.

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"Yesterday, the Emergency Committee met for the 15th time and recommended to me that I declare an end to the public health emergency of international concern. I have accepted that advice"-@DrTedros #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/esKKKOb1TZ

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The director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, offered good feelings regarding the evolution of the Covid-19 pandemic and assured that, if it is worked properly, this will be the year in which the public emergency is officially over.

“We are now entering the fourth year of the pandemic with a world that is in a much better situation than it was a few years ago, thanks to clinical care and the management of vaccines and treatments”, the expert assessed.

On the other hand, he assured that “for most of 2022, Covid-19 was in decline, vaccination increased and sustained progress was made in access to vaccines by low-and middle-income countries that had been forgotten in 2021 due to to vaccine nationalism.”

Tedros recalled that last week the WHO approved for the first time two generic drugs against the virus (nirmatrelvir and ritonavir), produced by an Indian pharmaceutical company, which will increase access to less developed countries to treatments.

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The countries participating in the Qatar 2022 World Cup install ‘Friendship Benches’ in Doha, a project organized by Sport for Health, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Qatar Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) to demonstrate the importance of mental health and offer advice on ways to promote mental well-being, including through the importance of physical activity and sport.

The initiative is supported by FIFA, the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy, WISH, the NGO Friendship Benches and the WHO Universal Health Coverage Association. The benches initiative was symbolically launched with the Bench of England previewing the Qatar Foundation’s global health event, the World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH) in the run-up to a larger reveal of the benchs in World Mental Health Day.

English athlete Sir Mo Farah, with ten Olympic and world gold medals, opened the England bench. “The bench is a simple yet powerful vehicle for promoting mental health, from park benches where people gather to football stadiums where players and staff watch their teams play for the joy and promise of sport and success. The Friendship Benches project is a powerful reminder of the importance of how health, from mental to physical health, is precious and common to all people and nations; how, through sport people can reach out to others, as human beings, in the spirit of solidarity and support,” said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

The final locations of each of the 32 banks will be announced soon. Once installed, information will be shared on how Qatari residents and visitors will be able to visit their national benches, and others, in a show of support for promoting mental health.

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The representative of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Cristian Morales, announced the development of 32 projects in the health sector with the purpose of strengthening the health system in Venezuela.

Morales said: “We are discussing with the Ministry of Health where the priorities are to be able to intervene in the areas of comprehensive community health; as well as raising management capacities, delivering medicines and supplies, recovering the infrastructure.”

The projects will be offering support in various areas such as: medicines, strengthening the capacities of health centers, such as the Comprehensive Diagnostic Centers (CDI), among others.

Reactivate the pharmaceutical industry

The representative of the WHO and PAHO highlighted the importance of reactivating the country’s pharmaceutical industry to be able to produce the medicines that the population requires and that allow them to improve their health conditions. In his opinion, the country has a fairly strong pharmaceutical industry compared to other countries.

“Not only raise production, not only raise the laboratories where the medicines and vaccines that Venezuela can develop are produced; but also to raise the capacities of the Ministry of Health, of the Institute of Hygiene to be able to ensure that this production is of quality”, he explained.

On the other hand, Morales also referred to the need to optimize the living conditions of workers, who, in his opinion, are working in “very complex conditions” that have worsened as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Morales also confirmed that the WHO, like PAHO, has always supported the country in the “definition, implementation, and supervision of public health policies.”

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