July 30, 2021
As leaders of the world’s wealthiest economies prepare to meet in Rome, Italy this October, global health and economic stability hang in the balance.In an urgent appeal for global health solidarity and equitable vaccine access, AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) is launching a G20 Manifesto and a ticking clock which is counting down to the G20 summit. The Manifesto outlines seven actions G20 leaders must take before the summit to put the world on a path to defeating the pandemic.
We call on you to join us in a fight for fair vaccine access. To help the effort, read and share the G20 Manifesto as far and wide as possible, then pledge to protect humanity at vaccinateourworld.org. Together we can convince G20 leaders to step up and end this pandemic!
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The Panel for a Global Public Health Convention (PGPHC) expressed disappointment today over indications that the World Health Assembly is planning to postpone until November 2021 the decision to start preparing a new pandemic treaty. At a time when the world needs urgent action, a delay of any length undermines the momentum toward bringing countries together to ratify a global public health treaty or convention.
The draft resolution, which is currently under consideration at the WHA, calls for the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) to convene a special session of the WHA in autumn. In the meantime, a working group would assess the benefits of developing a WHO convention, or another instrument on pandemic preparedness and response.
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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