Tag: World Health Assembly
Bill Gates, the Big Boss of the World Health Organization: Philanthropist or Misanthropist?
Economist Herman Velasquez directed the WHO drug action program for some time. In 2010, he left the organization after repeatedly denouncing the lack of...
Understanding the U.S. Withdrawal from the World Health Assembly and the Abstention of 11 Other Nations on the WHO Pandemic Agreement
The World Health Assembly (WHA) is the forum through which the World Health Organization (WHO) is governed by its 194 member states.The WHO pandemic agreement was accepted after a...
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...