Écrit par WHO | 04 Juin 2018

30 May 2018  - It’s been ten days since Jean René* lost his brother to Ebola virus disease (EVD).
"My brother’s wife has come to live with my family," said Jean René, who lives in a community about 20 kilometers north of Mbandaka, the first urban centre in the Democratic Republic of Congo to have confirmed cases of EVD during the current outbreak.

Though mourning the loss of his...

Écrit par WHO | 04 Juin 2018

31 May 2018 ¦ Geneva: Tobacco use has declined markedly since 2000, according to a new World Health Organization (WHO) report, but the reduction is insufficient to meet globally agreed targets aimed at protecting people from death and suffering from cardiovascular and other non-communicable diseases (NCDs).

For World No Tobacco Day 2018, WHO has joined with the World Heart Federation...

Écrit par WHO | 30 Mai 2018

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Director-General

Closing speech for the 71st World Health Assembly

Palais des Nations, Geneva
26 May 2018

Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen,

Sometimes the challenges of our world can feel overwhelming.

Poverty. Hunger. Inequality. Pollution. Violence. War. Disease.

But we come together as the nations of the world because we choose not to be...

Écrit par WHO | 25 Mai 2018

Noncommunicable diseases

Health Assembly delegates called for stepped up action in the global fight to beat noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), including urging for participation by heads of state and government at the Third United Nations General Assembly High-level Meeting on the Prevention and Control of NCDs on 27 September 2018.

Member States reiterated that the international...