Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Calls on U.N. To Investigate Reports of Sex Abuse at WHO
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A report from the Associated Press detailing sexual abuse by World Health Organization staffers working during the Ebola outbreak in Congo has donors, including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, demanding answers.
The report documents that senior WHO management was alerted to multiple allegations of sexual abuse by two of its doctors during the epidemic in 2018. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the third-largest funder of the WHO, said it expects the U.N. to lead thorough investigations as soon as possible.
By Morgan Winsor and Erin Schumaker, ABC News
May 12, 2021 | 7:00 AM
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(NEW YORK) As India, the second-most populous country in the world, grapples with a devastating second wave of COVID-19 infections that has pushed its health system to the brink of collapse, officials in Africa, the world’s second-largest continent, are on high alert.
“What’s happening in India must not happen here,” Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, the World Health Organization’s regional director for Africa, said at a virtual press briefing last Thursday. “If we prepare now, we will not pay the price later.”
The more than 414,000 newly confirmed cases of COVID-19 recorded in India last Thursday was the highest single-day count by any nation during the pandemic. But the alarming spike is a relatively new phenomenon there. Until late February, India was considered a success story, with experts surmising that declining infections might be due to the South Asian country’s warm climat
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FILE PHOTO: A member of the French Red Cross disinfects the area around a motionless person suspected of carrying the Ebola virus as a crowd gathers in Forecariah, Guinea, January 30, 2015. REUTERS/Misha Hussain/File Photo
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WASHINGTON: The Biden administration said on Thursday (May 13) it was lifting Ebola-related travel restrictions for US visitors who have recently been in Guinea, effective Friday.
In March, the Department of Homeland Security ordered that travelers who had been in Guinea and Democratic Republic of the Congo within the past 21 days had to fly into one of six US airports - New York-JFK; Chicago; Atlanta; Washington Dulles; Newark, New Jersey; or Los Angeles. The restriction on travel from DRC was lifted on May 3. DHS said on Thursday there had been no ne
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As India, the second-most populous country in the world, grapples with a devastating second wave of COVID-19 infections that has pushed its health system to the brink of collapse, officials in Africa, the world s second-largest continent, are on high alert. What’s happening in India must not happen here, Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, the World Health Organization s regional director for Africa, said at a virtual press briefing last Thursday. If we prepare now, we will not pay the price later.
(NEW YORK) — As India, the second-most populous country in the world, grapples with a devastating second wave of COVID-19 infections that has pushed its health system to the brink of collapse, officials in Africa, the world’s second-largest continent, are on high alert. “What’s happening in India must not happen here,” Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, the [.]