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Sustainably financing the World Health Organisation, part two

  • Posted on May 20, 2022June 27, 2022
  • by andrew
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Hold onto your seats folks because the 75th World Health Assembly is about to convene! Health Ministers (and billionaires, CEOs, NGOs, CSOs, etc) of the world converge in Geneva next week to review and approve/contest…

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WHO

Sustainably financing the World Health Organisation, part one

  • Posted on January 22, 2022May 20, 2022
  • by andrew
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The Executive Board of the World Health Organisation is meeting next week. One of the agenda items is sustainable financing of the Organisation. ‘Sustainable’ in this context refers less to the well-known reality that WHO’s…

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WHO

WHO cares? A reply to Calvert and Arbuthnott

  • Posted on September 2, 2021September 8, 2021
  • by andrew
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WHO cares? Well, yes, WHO – the World Health Organisation – does actually care. It cares a lot about a lot of things – all of which are beneficial to my, yours, everyone’s health on…

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Building forward better: WHO’s programme budget 2022-23

  • Posted on January 17, 2021May 1, 2021
  • by andrew
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The Executive Board of the World Health Organisation is meeting next week. It’s going to be an important meeting and, thanks to the wonder of the internet, you can watch it live from tomorrow. I…

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WHO

Funding who: the covid effect

  • Posted on January 16, 2021May 1, 2021
  • by andrew
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It’s January, so that can only mean one thing – the first of two annual meetings of the World Health Organisation’s Executive Board. The January meeting is the more important of the two meetings as…

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Global Health

Who’s now not funding WHO?

  • Posted on April 16, 2020May 1, 2021
  • by andrew
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I’ve written about World Health Organisation (WHO) funding a couple of times before (see AC/VC: The shock of WHO funding and Who’s funding WHO), and it’s come up again this week because the United States,…

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Global Health

The World Health Organisation and Pandemic Politics: A reply to David Fidler

  • Posted on April 12, 2020May 1, 2021
  • by andrew
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I’m not a big fan of David Fidler’s global health writing. Sometimes I wonder why. He was quite prolific a few years ago; less so nowadays. But given that he’s well-known, has written a lot…

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Climate Change

Should the WHO declare climate change a Public Health Emergency of International Concern?

  • Posted on April 9, 2019May 1, 2021
  • by andrew
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In preparation for this year’s World Health Assembly (I will be attending again this year as a WHO ‘watcher’ with the Peoples Health Movement), I’ve been reading a couple of documents produced by the WHO…

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Who’s funding WHO?

  • Posted on June 7, 2018May 1, 2021
  • by andrew
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AC/VC: The shock of WHO funding

  • Posted on May 27, 2018May 1, 2021
  • by andrew
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