Tag: WHO

The WHO isn’t perfect, but it needs more money and power, not less

August 12, 2021

The WHO needs more authority, not less. 

It needs the capabilities to independently investigate outbreaks and to provide rapid and significant support to control those outbreaks where they occur. The WHO should be able to fund and coordinate the development and global rollout of tests, equipment, treatments, and vaccines, and it should be able to rely on other parts of the United Nations to support a financial response designed to limit the economic costs of an outbreak. The WHO has many of these powers on paper. What it needs is more money to execute them.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/04/15/999085/who-trump-funding-cut-bad/?truid=e0dd2cbe984961ceccec29c613c6f06f

W.H.O. Warns That Pipeline for New Antibiotics Is Running Dry

August 12, 2021

In two new reports, the global health agency says only government intervention can fix the broken market for new antimicrobial drugs.

Some 700,000 people die each year because medicines that once cured their conditions are no long effective. Yet the vast majority of the 60 new antimicrobial products in development worldwide are variations on existing therapies, and only a handful target the most dangerous drug-resistant infections, the agency said in a report.