AHF: Ten Ways WHO Catastrophically Failed the World
Wednesday, May 12, 2021 4:30PM IST (11:00AM GMT)
Los Angeles, United States:
With the upcoming World Health Assembly at the end of May, and indications that the World Health Organization (WHO) director-general plans to seek a second term in office, AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the world’s largest provider of HIV/AIDS care globally, calls on the United Nations Member States to consider and address the many ways in which the WHO did not measure up to the task of protecting the world from COVID-19.
“It is now fourteen months since the WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic, and the world was thrown into chaos. Vaccinations are ramping up, but much too slowly in many parts of the world – and countries like India are on ‘fire,’” said AHF President Michael Weinstein. “Coordinated international efforts to control COVID-19 have been virtually non-exi
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THE TIMES OF INDIA | May 12, 2021, 18:32:25 IST
Swift mask mandates and travel restrictions, an international treaty and the creation of new bureaucracies are among the recommendations presented to the W.H.O.