Enshrining Inequity is Immoral: Vote No on the Pandemic Agreement, says AHF

As the final stage of negotiations of the World Health Organization (WHO) Pandemic Agreement nears conclusion, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation voices major concerns about the latest Proposal for the Agreement. The current best-case scenario in the most recent text will require that 20% of pandemic-related health products be “made available for use on the basis of public health risk and need. This is grossly insufficient because it leaves 80% of critical vaccines, treatments, and diagnostics inaccessible to LMICs which comprise approximately 85% of the world’s population. The world-leading scientific journal, The Lancet, has described this proposal as “shameful, unjust and inequitable.”

Pandemic Accord Is 20% Health Equity and 80% Inequity, Says AHF

With the Pandemic Accord negotiations set to resume tomorrow for a last-ditch effort to find consensus before the deadline at the end of May, AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) has described the current state of the text as 20% equity and 80% inequity.

Dengue fever is surging in Latin America

The number of people who succumb to the disease has been rising for two decades For the second time in five years, Brazil’s army is building field hospitals in the capital, Brasília. The tents are accommodating a surge of patients from swamped emergency departments, as millions of Brazilians succumb to dengue fever that is spreading across […]

Latin America CDC a Must, say Public Health Leaders and AHF

April 26, 2024 06:48 PM Eastern Daylight Time MEXICO CITY–(BUSINESS WIRE)–In response to the unprecedented challenges that Latin America has faced during various health crises such as AH1N1, Zika, COVID-19, and Dengue, a prominent group of former health ministers and public health academics from the region has published in the prestigious journal The Lancet the […]

Nuevo Acuerdo Pandémico: Las grandes compañías farmacéuticas ganan y el Mundo en Desarrollo Pierde, dice el Instituto AHF de Salud Pública Global

A medida que se acerca la última reunión del Órgano de Negociación Intergubernamental (ONI) del Acuerdo Pandémico de la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS), la AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) y el Instituto AHF de Salud Pública Global expresan preocupaciones significativas sobre la Propuesta del 16 de abril de 2024 para el Acuerdo Pandémico de la OMS.