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On February 28, at around one in the morning, Dr. John Nkengasong’s cellphone rang in Addis Ababa. Nigerian officials told Nkengasong, the Director of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and ...
If he turned his head to look out the window, Dr. John Nkengasong said, he knew what he would see: another desperate family carrying a dying loved one — a man or woman already lapsing into a ...
A U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official, John Nkengasong, sent a memo to senior leaders at the agency on Sunday night telling them that all staff who work with the WHO must ...
their deputies and others by John Nkengasong, the deputy director for global health at CDC. The order comes on the heels of President Trump's inauguration day announcement that he was starting the ...
President John Dramani Mahama has announced a new partnership with the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. This story is part of a major Financial Times series Coronavirus: could the world have been spared?
Health officials working at agencies housed within the Department of Health and Human Services have been told to suspend ...
“It would have been a moral crisis of unimaginable proportions,” said Ambassador John Nkengasong, who was confirmed by the Senate as PEPFAR’s director in May. Key to this success, according ...
Kennedy was one of a handful of nominees approved by voice vote on Thursday, along with Marc Nathanson to be ambassador to Norway, John Nkengasong to be ambassador at large to combat HIV-AIDS ...