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Patients and staff sit and walk around in the Doctors Without Borders-run hospital in Bantiu, South Sudan, Monday, June 24,2024. South Sudan's health system suffers, even though the relative peace gives many women easier access to care. The government allocates less than 2% of the national budget to the health ministry. Much of the health system is propped up by aid groups and the international community. (AP Photo/Sam Mednick)

U.N. official says Sudan’s war has killed at least 20,000 people

By Samy Magdy - Associated Press

A health professional shows doses of Monkeypox vaccines at the Edison municipal vaccination centre in Paris Wednesday July 27, 2022. The World Health Organization says the global outbreak of mpox, which initially baffled experts when the smallpox-related disease spread to more than 100 countries last year, is no longer an international emergency, after a dramatic drop in cases in recent months. (Alain Jocard, Pool via AP, File)

Mpox no longer a global emergency, WHO says

By Maria Cheng - Associated Press

Commuters wearing face masks ride bicycles along a street in the central business district in Beijing, Thursday, Oct. 20, 2022. The World Health Organization downgraded its assessment of the coronavirus pandemic on Friday, May 5, 2023, saying it no longer qualifies as a global emergency. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) **FILE**

WHO says COVID emergency is over. So what does that mean?

By Maria Cheng - Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo dated Sunday, Jan. 31, 2021, security personnel clear the way for a convoy of the World Health Organization team to enter the Huanan Seafood Market on the third day of field visit in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province. International scientists have examined previously unavailable genetic data from samples collected at a market in China close to where the first human cases of COVID-19 were detected and said they have found suggestions the pandemic originated from animals, not a lab. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

New COVID origins data point to raccoon dogs in China market

By Dake Kang and Maria Cheng - Associated Press

Residents wait in line to receive the Ebola vaccine in Beni, Congo DRC on July 13, 2019. A confidential U.N. report into the alleged missteps by senior World Health Organization in the way they handled a sexual misconduct case during an Ebola outbreak in Congo found their response did not violate the agency’s policies because of what some officials described as a “loophole.” The report, which was submitted to the WHO Director-General on Jan. 2023, and was not released publicly, was obtained by the Associated Press. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

‘Loophole’ excuses WHO officials accused of misconduct

By Maria Cheng - Associated Press

U.S. Loyce Pace, Assistant Secretary for Global Affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is seen during the 75th World Health Assembly at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, on May 24, 2022. The State Department’s top official on health affairs urged the World Health Organization to address allegations reported by The Associated Press that one of its doctors repeatedly engaged in sexual misconduct. “There are many of us who stand with survivors and stand with those who identify as victims and are truly committed, but also frustrated by where things have stood to date," Loyce Pace told a meeting of the WHO's Executive Board on Tuesday. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

Top U.S. official urges WHO to address sexual misconduct

By Maria Cheng - Associated Press

World Health Organization Regional Director for Western Pacific Takeshi Kasai addresses the media at the start of the five-day annual session Monday, Oct. 7, 2019, in Manila, Philippines. Kasai has been indefinitely removed from his post, according to internal correspondence Friday, Aug. 26, 2022, obtained by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez, File)

WHO director in Asia accused of racism, abuse put on leave

By Maria Cheng - Associated Press

FILE - The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks during a media conference at an EU Africa summit in Brussels on Feb. 18, 2022 .The head of the World Health Organization criticized the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the Roe v. Wade ruling that guaranteed women a constitutional right to abortion, calling it “a setback” that would ultimately cost women's lives.(Johanna Geron/Pool Photo via AP, File)

WHO chief: U.S. abortion ruling ‘a setback,’ will cost lives

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This 2003 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virions, left, and spherical immature virions, right, obtained from a sample of human skin associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak. WHO's top monkeypox expert Dr. Rosamund Lewis said she doesn’t expect the hundreds of cases reported to date to turn into another pandemic, but acknowledged there are still many unknowns about the disease, including how exactly it’s spreading and whether the suspension of mass smallpox immunization decades ago may somehow be speeding its transmission. (Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regner/CDC via AP, File)

WHO convenes experts to decide if monkeypox is an emergency

By Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks during a media conference at an EU Africa summit in Brussels on Feb. 18, 2022. Ghebreyesus, is expected to be confirmed by the U.N. health agency's member countries for a second five-year term on Tuesday, May 24, 2022 after no other candidate challenged him for the post amid the ongoing difficulties of responding to the devastating coronavirus pandemic. (Johanna Geron, Pool Photo via AP, File)

WHO chief Tedros reappointed to second five-year term

By Maria Cheng - Associated Press

In this file photo, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra arrives for a Senate Finance hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 5, 2022, to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2023 for the Dept. of Health and Human Services. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FILE**

WHO chief, HHS secretary press Congress to pass global virus aid

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks during a media conference at an EU Africa summit in Brussels, Friday, Feb. 18, 2022. European Union leaders on Thursday lauded the bloc's vaccine cooperation with Africa in the fight against the coronavirus, but there was no sign they would move toward a temporary lifting of intellectual property rights protection for COVID-19 shots. (Johanna Geron, Pool Photo via AP)

WHO announces mRNA transfer ‘hub’ to help Africa produce its own vaccines

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Masks hang on sticks during a practice session for Switzerland's women's hockey team at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

When will the pandemic be over? It’s complicated, scientists say

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), talks to the media regarding the coronavirus COVID-19 and WHO's global health priorities in 2022, during a new press conference, at the World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, Dec. 20, 2021. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

WHO chief: Blanket booster drives risk prolonging pandemic

Associated Press

In this file photo, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization, WHO, speaks at the WHO headquarters, in Geneva, Switzerland, May 24, 2021. A group of four Republican senators sent Mr. Tedros a letter on Dec. 10, 2021, in which they took issue with the WHO's official explanation for why it didn't name the omicron variant the "xi" variant. (Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP, File)

Exclusive: Republicans say WHO pandered to China by skipping ‘xi’ in COVID names

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

World Health Organisation Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus waves as he arrives for a meeting of G20 finance and health ministers at the Salone delle Fontane (Hall of Fountains) in Rome, Friday, Oct. 29, 2021. The World Health Organization says its director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, is running unopposed for a second five-year term. The U.N. health agency made the announcement Friday after the deadline for candidacies for the next five-year term expired on Sept. 23. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

WHO Director-General Tedros unopposed for 2nd five-year term

Associated Press

In this file photo dated Tuesday, July 14, 2020, Director-General of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends the Bastille Day military parade, in Paris. The head of the World Health Organization has appealed on Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2021, for a moratorium on administering booster shots of COVID-19 vaccines, to ensure doses are available in countries where few people have yet received their first shots. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File)

WHO seeks COVID-19 vaccine booster moratorium to ensure enough doses

By Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

In this Monday, May 24, 2021 file photo, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), speaks at the WHO headquarters, in Geneva, Switzerland. The head of the World Health Organization said Thursday, July 15 that he is asking China to be more transparent as scientists search for the origins of the coronavirus and acknowledged it was premature to rule out that the pandemic may have been linked to a laboratory leak. (Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP, File)

WHO chief admits it was ‘premature’ to rule out COVID lab leak

By Frank Jordans and Maria Cheng - Associated Press

In this Monday, March 9, 2020, file photo, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization, speaks during a news conference, at the WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP, File)

WHO chief: We must vaccinate 10% of the global population by September, 30% by December

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

A health worker arranges the empty Covishield vaccines for COVID-19 after administers at the press club in Gauhati, India, Friday, May 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

WHO presses wealthier nations to share COVID-19 vaccines

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times