.@WHO is concerned by the grave risks to people's health from the conflict that is expanding across the Middle East.
The threat of nuclear facilities being impacted is especially worrying. All must be done to reduce any nuclear safety risk, which may affect people in the region.
Peace, as always, is the best medicine.
I am deeply troubled by the situation unfolding today across the Middle East. My heart goes out to the civilians trapped in the crossfire. Regardless of borders, everyone deserves to live without the threat of violence around them. Today, we urge leaders to choose the challenging path of dialogue over the senseless route of destruction. The world is watching and hoping for wisdom to prevail over weapons.
Peace is the best medicine. 🌍🕊️
Since the conflict began in Amhara region of #Ethiopia, there are disturbing reports of health workers being targeted - detained, beaten, and killed. On Feb 4, Dr. Tsegahun Sime was reportedly taken by security forces in Bahir Dar and later found dead. Hospitals have been damaged in the fighting, and aid workers have lost their lives. With internet blackouts limiting information, these incidents need urgent independent investigation. Health facilities and health workers are not a target.
Peace is the best medicine!
Four in 10 cancer cases worldwide could be prevented.
•15% of all new cancer cases are caused by tobacco
•10% by infections
•3% by alcohol
A new @WHO study has examined 30 preventable causes, including high body mass index, physical inactivity, air pollution, ultraviolet radiation – and for the first time – nine cancer-causing infections.
For a privileged few, early detection, innovations in health products and improvement in treatment quality — including medicines and therapy techniques — is driving survival beyond 70%. For most people, cancer remains a death sentence—compounded by devastating financial hardship.
@WHO is working with governments to advance policies and equitable access to tools that protect people and families.
More findings from the analysis here: https://t.co/DwiIytxrKT
Good meeting with @CMO_England, Professor Chris Whitty, during the ongoing @WHO Executive Board. We discussed the strength of the UK-WHO collaboration on global health, the importance of ensuring WHO is fit for purpose to fulfill its core mandate and functions to promote and protect health, the need to scale up malaria control efforts, and the ongoing negotiations on the pathogen access and benefit sharing system of the WHO Pandemic Agreement.
General Michael Langley, Commander of U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) visited #Ethiopia and met with Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.
Their discussions focused on countering terrorist threats from al-Shabaab and ISIS in the Horn of Africa.
📸@AbiyAhmedAli
A misguided decision by a cabal of few army officers to take the law into their hands and dismantle state structures throughout Tigray the last few days has plunged the region into an uncharted territory, with civilians protesting these illegal moves being rounded up and shot at at random. Many casualties in Adigudom and parts of Mekelle. The rampage is part of a harebrained plan to install an illegal faction of TPLF into the position of power, a move that flies full in the face of the aspirations of the people of Tigray and if the Pretoria Agreement. It’s incumbent upon all the stakeholders to the Pretoria agreement to face down such a brazen move before it escalates into another round of devastating war on and against the people of Tigray. There is every reason to believe external forces are trying to take advantage of this crisis to stock up more violence throughout the region and beyond. As if the suffering of hundreds of thousands of people in IDP camps is not worse enough, the very officers who only recently put themselves in harm’s way in their people’s cause. Much as it pains me to break ranks with my erstwhile comrades, it’s altogether fitting and appropriate that we condemn such reckless acts of unmitigated violence in the service of a faction hell bent on grabbing power at all costs.
''Had a great time in Harar, where I got the chance to sample high quality Harari coffee at the source. Delicious! No wonder it is so world renowned. We hope to see the regions coffee trees protected and thrive for the next generations of coffee lovers.'' - Ambassador Massinga