Tag: World Health Assembly
Global Health Alert: Adopted IHR amendments strengthen surveillance and require countries to “address misinformation” – but countries have 10 months to reject them
There has been much coverage of the World Health Assembly adopting the amendments to the International Health Regulations. Unsurprisingly, this coverage has been in...
Amendments to the International Health Regulations adopted: this is what it means
The changes to the International Health Regulations (IHR) were pushed through at the World Health Assembly (WHA), the general meeting of the WHO. It...
Letter from India — Stop World Health Organization’s ‘Pandemic Preparedness’ Treaty
Cease the 'Pandemic Preparedness' Treaty proposed by the World Health Organization.
The global pandemic preparedness accord (‘pandemic treaty’) currently being put in place by the...
‘Controlling’ pandemics: Will our chowkidar blow trumpet, oppose arbitrary WHO move?
By Dr. (Prof) Amitav Banerjee, Epidemiologist
Universal Health Organisation (UHO), Chairman
Postdoctoral in epidemiology, who was a field epidemiologist for over two decades in the Indian...
Hold a parliamentary vote on whether to reject amendments to the IHR 2005
We are concerned that Parliament has not discussed and will not have a say on the 307 proposed amendments to the International Health Regulations,...