The World Health Organization (WHO) issued a plan to prevent any further misconduct by aid workers deployed in its field of operations after WHO staff were caught up in a major sexual abuse scandal in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus vowed to ensure that the affair and the victims’ suffering would be “the catalyst for profound transformation of WHO’s culture.”
Major donors, led by the United States and the European Union, have urged WHO to launch a deeper external investigation demanding how the scandal was allowed to happen.
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