AIDS Healthcare Foundation: Independent Panel Report Lets WHO off the Hook, Says AHF
The Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response (IPPPR) issued a report earlier this week with recommendations on improving global pandemic preparedness. AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the world s largest provider of HIV/AIDS care globally, has characterized the report as a restatement of previous well-reasoned but unimplemented attempts at global public health reforms. These most recent suggestions leave the World Health Organization (WHO) to carry on a central role in future pandemic responses despite criticizing its poor performance during COVID-19.
Certain aspects of the IPPPR report are consistent with another recently published study by 21 leading public health thinkers in The Lancet Public Health A global public health convention for the 21st century. However, the latter describes the failures of the current global public health system, recommends radical changes at the Wo