Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

2024 has been a complex and challenging year. Here is WHO’s take on key moments in health and science over the past 12 months: https://www.who.int/news-room/spotlight/who-looks-back-at-2024/

As the year comes to an end, we express our ceaseless gratitude and admiration for health workers and carers everywhere.

I congratulate the people and government of Rwanda and President Paul Kagame on successfully ending the #Marburg virus disease outbreak.

I salute especially the health workers who put themselves in harm’s way to save their colleagues, and I honour the memory of those we have lost.

WHO remains committed to supporting Rwanda in its journey towards a healthier and safer future for all its people.

WHO and partners reached Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern #Gaza two days ago, amid hostilities and explosions in the vicinity of the hospital during the mission. The team delivered 5000 liters of fuel, food and medicines, and transferred 3 patients and 6 companions to Al-Shifa Hospital.

In the last week, four WHO missions to Kamal Adwan have been arbitrarily denied, including the re-deployment of the international emergency medical team, which had self-evacuated from the hospital on 6 December due to hostilities. This has left the hospital without specialized personnel for surgical and maternal care.

Hostilities around the hospital continue and recent attacks have further damaged the oxygen supply, generators, and broken windows and doors of the patients' rooms.

The conditions in the hospital are simply appalling.

We urge for the protection of health care and for this hell to stop! Ceasefire!

Every drowning death is one death too many, and millions of people remain at risk. The new WHO report on #DrowningPrevention contains crucial data for policy-making and recommendations for urgent action to save lives: bit.ly/3ZyOAam

When you need health services, can you access them?

Can you afford them?

Shockingly, for too many people, the answer is no. Many have to choose between health care or their next meal; between medicines or their children's schoolbooks.

#UHCDay is a reminder that #HealthForAll means everyone can access the health services they need, without financial hardship.

That's the world WHO is working for.

It feels like yesterday, when President Emmanuel Macron and I held a corridor conversation at the G20 Leaders Summit in Argentina in 2018 about the potential to revolutionise training for health professionals by setting up an academy.

In two weeks time, on 17 December, the journey will reach its first key milestone -- the #WHOAcademy inauguration in Lyon.

The Academy’s vision is straightforward yet ambitious: a world where every health and care worker, policymaker and WHO team member is equipped with the skills and competencies they need to achieve health for all.

I invite all Member States and health professionals around the world to join us in celebrating this moment and help us make the WHO Academy a centre of excellence for the whole world!

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/transforming-global-health-education-who-academy-ghebreyesus-8qdze?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&utm_campaign=share_via

This #WorldAIDSDay, we call on countries to keep human rights central in the HIV response.
 
Marginalization, criminalization and discrimination against key populations has fuelled HIV transmission and cost lives.
 
By protecting everyone’s right to health, we can prevent new infections and achieve an AIDS-free generation.

90% of people in Gaza are now living in tents, leaving them vulnerable to respiratory and other diseases, food insecurity and malnutrition as winter approaches.

The ultimate solution to this suffering is not aid, but peace.

My thanks to all the leaders for keeping WHO, and global health, high on the #G20 agenda in Rio.

All for health, #HealthForAll!

No woman or girl should live in fear.

#NoExcuse #EndViolence

Stopping #AntimicrobialResistance (AMR) is a shared responsibility.

This World AMR Awareness Week, let's work together to protect the medicines that protect us.