The 75th World Health Assembly in Geneva on Tuesday will elect the director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO). The re-election of incumbent Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to a second five-year term is considered certain, as there is no opposing candidate.
The 57-year-old is a biologist and immunologist and served as Ethiopia’s health and foreign affairs minister before becoming the first African to be elected WHO chief in 2017.
Although there are repeated controversies about the Ethiopian, Tedros has become one of the best-known representatives in the fight against the virus since the start of the corona pandemic. He was praised for the way he guided the organization through the health crisis.
Tedros: “I am a war child”
Most recently, Tedros described himself as a “child of war” at the annual WHO conference. “The WHO cannot deliver the one medicine it needs most: peace,” the 57-year-old said, after several heads of state and government also stressed in speeches that global security and health go hand in hand. There would be war not only in Ukraine, but also in Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan, Syria and in its conflict-torn homeland of Ethiopia.
Source: Krone
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