WHO fires doctor after findings of sexual misconduct

By JAMEY KEATEN
Associated Press

GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization says it has fired one of its doctors who faced allegations that he had repeatedly engaged in sexual misconduct. The U.N. health agency had come under pressure from the United States over the claims against the doctor, Fijian national Temo Waqanivalu. In January, The Associated Press reported that Waqanivalu was accused of sexually assaulting a woman at a Berlin conference last year had been flagged to senior WHO directors years earlier for allegedly harassing another staff member. In interviews with WHO investigators, Waqanivalu “categorically” denied he had ever sexually assaulted anyone. He declined to comment to the AP.