Shinzo Abe is prime minister of Japan. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is director-general of the World Health Organization. In the aftermath of the Second World War, Japan knew that the task of ...

And yet, 2020 was the year the world also recognized how far we have to go to fully protect our health care ... facilities lacks basic water services, 1 in 3 lacks adequate means to wash hands ...

Tedros said recent visits to Kenya, Madagascar and Rwanda convinced him that universal health coverage is not a pipe dream. He said all three countries are creating affordable health care systems.

“Half of our population does not have access to health care,” he said ... U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary did not threaten any funding cuts. Instead, he told Tedros the United ...

More than three decades have passed since the Declaration of Alma-Ata proclaimed primary health care (PHC), along with water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), to be basic inputs for public health. More ...

Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is the director-general of the World Health Organization. Senait Fisseha is an adjunct professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Michigan, vice ...

In his assessment of governments’ work to provide sufficient mental health resources to their citizens, Tedros Adhanom ... getting mental health services into primary care settings has been ...