Ethiopia News

Addis Ababa, 19 June 2017 - The Director-General elect of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr Tedros Adhanom paid a familiarization visit to the WHO Ethiopia Country Office in Addis Ababa, on 19 June 2017. 

The WHO Representative to Ethiopia, Dr Akpaka A. Kalu welcomed Dr Tedros to the Country Office and congratulated him on his election as WHO Director General. The staff of the Country Office also gathered at the office lobby to extend their warm welcome.

Addis Ababa, 3 July 2017: After taking office on 1 July 2017, the new Director-General of the World Health Organization, Dr Tedros Adhanom, conducted his first official visit to Ethiopia, on the occasion of the 29th African Union Summit of Heads of State and Government.

Dr Tedros Adhanom, WHO DG paid a courtesy call to the African Union Commission Chairperson

On 2 July 2017, Dr Tedros Adhanom paid a courtesy visit to the Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC), H.E. Moussa Faki Mahamat.

“Life is a long, often surprising road, with many hurdles to overcome and many opportunities to take advantage of. Back in 2003, I was in the land of opportunity - studying at university to become a pharmacist and dreaming of getting a good job. But after I finished my first year, the symptoms came,” says Endalkachew Fekadu, a multi-drug resistant TB survivor.

21 August 2016, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – Today, all forty-seven WHO Member States in the African Region adopted unanimously a new malaria framework for Africa. This framework aims to guide African countries on how to implement the Global Technical Strategy for malaria in the Region. It proposes specific priority interventions and actions to be implemented by Member States to reach “an African Region free of malaria”.