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WHO’s Director-General

December 2, 2025

WHO backs wider use of weight-loss medicines, calling obesity chronic disease

WHO warned that without deliberate policies, these treatments may widen existing health inequalities.

Obesity
August 11, 2021

WHO to commence trialing malaria, other drugs for COVID-19 treatment

Under the Solidarity PLUS programme, the therapies – artesunate, imatinib and infliximab – will be tested on hospitalised COVID-19 patients in 52 countries.

WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus