Pandemievertrag: Geistiges Eigentum muss einbezogen werden
Die Weltgesundheitsorganisation (WHO) wird in Kürze Verhandlungen über einen so genannten Pandemievertrag aufnehmen, der im Rahmen der Verfassung der Weltgesundheitsorganisation die Pandemieprävention, -vorsorge und -reaktion stärken soll. Der Generaldirektor der WHO, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, sieht die Entscheidung der Weltgesundheitsversammlung historisch, von entscheidender Bedeutung für ihren Auftrag und als eine einmalige Gelegenheit, die globale Gesundheitsarchitektur […]
The global organizations and populists who aim to seize COVID vaccine tech and IP
When Donald Trump claimed in September 2020 that every American would have access to vaccines by April 2021, his comments received scorn. The Washington Post said his claims were “without evidence,” CNN quoted health experts who said it was impossible, and The New York Times claimed it would take another decade. Now, a year into […]
Michael Bloomberg propels the WHO’s nanny state mission creep
Michael Bloomberg may have a domestic reputation as a tough-talking, three-term big-city mayor who blew hundreds of millions on a doomed presidential campaign, but around the world, his money talks. For years, his charity Bloomberg Philanthropies has dispensed billions of dollars to global causes near and dear to the billionaire’s heart: climate change, public health, education, and […]
WHO Seeks $1 Billion Funding Boost from International Governments
The World Health Organisation (WHO) announced Thursday it is ready to launch an appeal for more than $US1 billion to underwrite operations against the Chinese coronavirus pandemic. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus believes the pandemic needs a whole-of government and society response, and to that end is seeking a new funding lifeline outside its existing […]
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Laws Passed in Wake of the Coronavirus Pandemic
It’s now springtime in the northern hemisphere, and we’re now several weeks into the COVID-19 pandemic. As consumer advocates, our job has never relinquished: we’re there to closely monitor regulatory trends in major capitals to inform and activate consumers to fight for #ConsumerChoice. With governments scrambling to protect its citizens, we’ve seen an unprecedented push […]
The World Health Organization fails us again: This time Coronavirus
Fred Roeder, Health Economist and Managing Director of the Consumer Choice Center Last week when visiting Davos during the World Economic Forum, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization, casually walked down the main street of the small alpine town without a worry in his face. At that moment, his organization saw […]
Everything Wrong with Cancer Warning Labels
Everything Wrong with Cancer Warning Labels “BACON…, HOT COFFEE…, RED MEAT…, COCONUT OIL…WHAT DO THEY HAVE IN COMMON? You’ve may have thought: THEY’RE DELICIOUS. WRONG. According to the World Health Organization’s INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER (IARC), all these foods “PROBABLY” or “POSSIBLY” can give you cancer. Each year, this France-based agency published new studies […]
The Food Nannies Are Coming to Protect You from Hamburgers and Soda
Dehumanizing market decisions is key to patronizing nanny-state policies. The Lancet Recommendation In a report published in The Lancet at the end of January, lead author Boyd Swinburn makes the case for greater government intervention in order to reduce the public health effects of malnutrition. The 56-page report is a long list of known policy prescriptions to increase public health, […]
Warum sollen Arme Zölle auf Medikamente zahlen?
Due to a lack of basic conditions and a lack of infrastructure, donated drugs and vaccines often do not even reach patients. # EB144 Zeitgleich zum Weltwirtschaftsforum trifft sich Ende Januar unweit von Davos in Genf der geschäftsführende Vorstand der Weltgesundheitsorganisation. Erschütternde Nachrichten über erneute Ebola-Fälle aus dem Kongo sollten vermuten lassen, dass es sich […]
Huge disparities in European breast cancer care shown by new index
With nearly 100,000 women lose their life to breast cancer every year in the European Union it is the most lethal cancer diagnosis for women in the EU. And while health systems of the 28 different Member States have made progresses in providing better care, chances of early diagnosis and state of the art treatment depends heavily […]
An overload of warning labels desensitises the public
Does slapping a warning label on every single item we buy in the shops really make us more aware of potential risks, or are we running into an overprotection of the individual? In an effort to protect public health, the World Health Organization (WHO) is calling for more comprehensive warning labels on things like alcohol. […]
WHO’s afraid of vaping?
For the second time in two years, I sat in the public gallery at a United Nations conference in Geneva as a senior UN bureaucrat told us that all members of the media and public were barred from the proceedings, writes Yael Ossowski for Spiked. This particular occasion was one of the UN’s biannual sessions to update the World […]
