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“From conflicts to economic crises to climate change and aid cuts, we live in difficult, dangerous and divisive times,” World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told the opening plenary of the World Health Assembly (WHA) on Monday...
Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, a WHA special guest speaker, appealed for solidarity and multilateral support for global health to combat “the pandemic of egotism and selfishness”.
Sánchez said that Spain had increased its official development aid (ODA) by 30%, explaining: “No country can save itself. Protecting others is the best way to protect ourselves.”
Without naming the United States, he added: “The greatest risk for global health is no longer the lack of science, but rather the lack of conscience. In just a few months, the same country that cut $18 billion from global public health and ODA has spent more than $29 billion on war, the humanitarian and geopolitical consequences of which will also be devastating.”
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Sanchez received a standing ovation.
HIFA profile: Neil Pakenham-Walsh is coordinator of HIFA (Healthcare Information For All), a global health community that brings all stakeholders together around the shared goal of universal access to reliable healthcare information. HIFA has 20,000 members in 180 countries, interacting in four languages and representing all parts of the global evidence ecosystem. HIFA is administered by Global Healthcare Information Network, a UK-based nonprofit in official relations with the World Health Organization. Email: neil@hifa.org