The World Health Organization opened the application period this May to choose a new Director-General. The person elected to succeed Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who has held the position since 2017, will be announced during the 80th World Health Assembly, scheduled for May 2027.

The WHO has been undergoing budget cuts in certain departments for several months, although it maintains its efforts and commitment to global health.

It is important to clarify that the current Director-General’s term ends on August 15 of next year. Given that the statutes establish a maximum limit of two consecutive terms, Tedros cannot seek reelection. Therefore, the organization is preparing to select three candidates from among all applicants to determine a successor.

The list of candidates will be updated as member countries register their nominees. However, two names are already circulating in the process: Hanan Balkhy, a physician from Saudi Arabia and current WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean; and Hans Kluge, a Belgian physician who currently serves as WHO Regional Director for Europe.

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One year after Argentina’s request to withdraw from the World Health Organization, the process has been completed, and the South American country is no longer part of the organization.

 

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Similar to the United States, which also broke with the WHO after Donald Trump’s election victory, Argentina has left the WHO. The request was submitted in February 2015, when the government cited disagreements in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Foreign Minister Pablo Quirno announced the news, explaining that “the withdrawal from the WHO also entails a new assertion of sovereignty and a veiled criticism of multilateralism.”

According to the official, the country will continue to promote “international cooperation in health through bilateral agreements and regional forums, fully safeguarding its sovereignty and its decision-making capacity regarding health policies.”

Argentina has strongly criticized the lockdown model promoted by the WHO during the pandemic, calling it a crime against humanity.

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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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Venezuela announced this Monday, August 19, the implementation of an epidemiological protocol at airports against monkeypox (mpox).

People entering the country must show a record of medical data that confirms their health status, particularly those travelers who come from countries where there is an outbreak of the disease.

As is known, monkeypox is an infectious disease that can cause “painful rashes, swollen glands and fever in those affected. It is transmitted by close skin-to-skin or skin-to-mucous membrane contact (such as saliva), especially all in sexual relations, or through contaminated objects and puncture wounds.”

The health authorities of Venezuela indicated that they have the medical, technological, scientific capacity, as well as the inter-institutional immediate response teams to promptly confront the situation and guarantee “the diagnosis, medical care, follow-up and monitoring required with the application of the recommendations issued by the WHO.

They added that they are in the process of acquiring the vaccine “which guarantees the strengthening of the epidemiological fence for population groups with high risk of exposure.”

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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, 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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