WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION AND AFRICA
The World Health Organization has come of age. Established as an organ of the United Nations Organization, she has achieved a lot in addressing the world health challenges as they crop up. WHO living up to her name, she has tried to balance the scale of disease control and its numerous organs or subsectors. It is pertinent to note that since WHO came onboard, the Africans who represent a focus significant global disease burden has consistently suffered under representaion in every aspect of the World Health Organization. The African continent lags behind lacking fair representaion and this means most of the time, while discussions on health challenges presented by the prevalence of many disease in Africa, the proverbial becomes our lot as the main frame fails to come on focus. That is why we all on one accord, welcome with joy, the appointment and emergence of Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus as the ipso facto Director General of the World Health Org…
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