The WHO Is No Longer Fit for Purpose

The top global agency, part of the United Nations system, for promoting preparedness in advance for health emergencies and crises and coordinating national responses, is the World Health Organisation.

Health includes mental health and well-being and is highly dependent on a robust economy, yet the WHO-backed package of measures to fight Covid has been damaging to health, children's immunisation programs in developing countries, mental health, food security, economies, poverty reduction, educational, and social well-being of peoples.

Euro-US efforts, backed by Australia, to amend legally binding international health regulations and adopt a new pandemic convention would confer extraordinary powers on the WHO to declare public health emergencies of international/regional concern and command governments to implement their recommendations.

Why empower a bigger and richer WHO to enforce wrongthink on the whole world? On 24 January, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said an urgent priority was to "Strengthen WHO as the leading and directing authority on global health," for: "We are one world, we have one health, we are one WHO." On 12 April, he said the Covid crisis had "Exposed serious gaps in the global health security architecture;" the new treaty would be "a generational agreement" and "a gamechanger" for global health security.

The progressive elements of the treaty include ritualistic obeisance to inclusiveness, solidarity, transparency, accountability, "The importance of diverse, gender-balanced and equitable representation and expertise," "The determination to achieve health equity through resolute action on social, environmental, cultural, political and economic determinants of health, such as eradicating hunger and poverty, ensuring access to health and proper food, safe drinking water and sanitation, employment and decent work and social protection in a comprehensive intersectoral approach."

Euro-US efforts to amend legally binding international health regulations and adopt a new pandemic accord on "Pandemic prevention, preparedness and response" would confer extraordinary powers on the WHO, acting through the director-general and the six regional directors, to declare public health emergencies of international/regional concern and instruct governments to implement their recommendations.

The terminological change in the IHR from a pandemic to a "Public health emergency of international concern" would make it easier for the WHO to assume extraordinary powers for health crises short of pandemics. 

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