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Mixed outcomes at the ‘COVID-19 World Health Assembly’
The 73rd World Health Assembly saw the US continue its attack on China and the World Health Organization. The WHA recognized immunization as a global public health good but failed to do the same for vaccines
World Health Assembly 2020: Is our response to COVID-19 adequate?
Ben Eder
Gargeya Telakapalli
Michael Ssemakula
Osama Ummer
Kriti Shukla
Matheus Z Falcao
Sophie Gepp
Natalie Rhodes
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May 18, 2020
Activists of the People’s Health Movement talk about the World Health Assembly that begins today, the key issues that will come up for discussion, and the collapse of the global governance system in the realm of public health
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