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What’s next for the World Health Organization? US exit could reshape agency
The US withdrawal will not officially happen until January 2026, so there will be months of uncertainty over budgets and ...
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"Now or never" for pandemic accord, says WHO chief after Trump pulls US out
The head of the WHO insisted it was "now or never" to strike a landmark global accord on tackling future pandemics, despite ...
Opinion
COVID-19 should have taught us that undermining global health is a risky proposition
Pathogens such as the coronavirus can travel around the world at a speed that too often outpaces governments’ ability to detect, treat, cure, and prevent diseases. Even the best-funded health care ...
Five years after COVID-19, what have we learned?
Five years since the worst pandemic in a century began spreading across the globe, we find ourselves in a world where trust ...
As the U.S. Exits Foreign Aid, Who Will Fill the Gap?
China could reap the soft-power advantage, but like Western governments, the country is cutting back on aid. Philanthropies ...
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WHO chief urges pandemic accord action after US withdrawal
The process began in December 2021, when, fearing a repeat of Covid-19 -- which killed millions of people, crippled health ...
MSNBC5d
The White House is making exactly the wrong moves to prevent the next pandemic
The U.S. is an essential partner with WHO and should play a leadership role in the global response to emerging ... years since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, with its estimated 18 million ...
When COVID Authoritarianism Met Border Authoritarianism (opinion)
All 194 countries in the World Health Organization imposed COVID travel restrictions. The authors of When the World Closed Its Doors argue it was a failure.
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'History will not forgive' failure to seal pandemic deal — WHO chief
The head of the UN's health agency warned Friday that history would not forgive countries if they failed to strike a pandemic ...
Victorville Daily Press5d
Students from Hesperia and Victorville participate at United Nations Conference in Boston
A group of High Desert middle and high school students recently participated in the Boston University Model United Nations Conference (BosMUN). Students were assigned a UN committee and country to ...
CDC layoffs strike deeply at its ability to respond to the current flu, norovirus and measles outbreaks and other public health emergencies
The CDC was instrumental in eradicating smallpox, identifying the causes of HIV and encouraging Americans to get the COVID-19 ...
The New York Times5d
The Covid-19 Pandemic
With the acute phase of the Covid-19 ... the response to loss may have changed in the last five years. The Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer talks about burnout from covering the pandemic ...