AIDS Healthcare Foundation: WHO COVID-19 Investigation Is Tainted by Conflict of Interest, Says AHF
AHF calls for the current WHO COVID-19 investigative team to be disbanded and reassembled by a completely independent panel.
AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) calls for the team that is currently investigating the origins of the novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China to be disbanded and reassembled by a completely independent panel with unfettered access and diplomatic immunity for all members. A conflict of interest of one of the current WHO-sanctioned team members and the tightly choreographed format of the field research cast doubt on the investigation s credibility and the validity of the eventual findings.
AHF Calls for Defense Production Act to Boost Virus Surveillance
AHF Calls for Defense Production Act to Boost Virus Surveillance Amid recent reports that the U.S. ranks 43rd globally for sequencing to find new SARS-CoV-2 variants, AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) calls on the Biden administration to utilize the Defense Production Act to seek out new virus strainsa proactive move that would provide a sufficient number of requisitioned labs to ensure the United States is operating at maximum research capacity. Genomic sequencing of SARS-CoV-2, the technique used to read and interpret the genetic information of the virus that causes COVID-19, is critical to following its spread, developing vaccines and understanding how it mutates into more virulent strains. Without comprehensive sequencing across all nationsand particularly in the U.S.new strains might go undetected and lead to higher rates of morbidity and mortality, as well as overwhelm healthcare systems and economies.
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AHF Alarmed by Bird Flu in India, Urges Immediate WHO Action
Thursday, January 14, 2021 3:48PM IST (10:18AM GMT)
Los Angeles, United States:
Amid an avian influenza outbreak in birds across nine Indian states, AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) urges World Health Organization (WHO) to immediately dispatch a technical team to investigate the situation. India currently has nearly 10.5 million cases of COVID-19 and over 151,000 deaths – the WHO must ensure this new outbreak is contained and does not cause widespread human infections in an already fragile public health system.
Viral samples from the current outbreak, including from wild and domesticated birds, have been found to contain influenza sub-types H5N8 and H5N1– strains that can jump species and infect humans who come in contact with an affected bird. While six people (out of 18 infected) died from bird flu in Hong Kong in 1997, there has been no kn
AIDS Healthcare Foundation: AHF to China: Free Zhang Zhan, Stop the Cover-up!
AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the world s largest AIDS organization, condemned the recent jailing of Chinese journalist Zhang Zhan for her reporting on COVID-19 in Wuhan as another example of Chinese authorities efforts to impede and obscure global investigations into the origins of the coronavirus and its spread in the early days of the pandemic.
Zhang s prison sentence of four years has been met with sharp criticism from advocates globally, including the European Union, which has demanded that Zhang be released. Zhang Zhan is a hero for courageously trying to expose a deadly cover-up that crippled the world. It s not acceptable that China is being allowed to continue the false narrative, and now it is boldly blocking the World Health Organization (WHO) investigators from going to Wuhan to study the outbreak, said AHF President Michael Weinstein. It s shameful that [WHO Director-General] Tedro