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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. US Health and Human Services Secretary US withdraws WHO Some background to decision (and more importantly to chart a future path toward global cooperation on health and health security) WHO, legacy institution Mired in Bureaucratic bloat Entrenched paradigms Conflicts of interest International power politics. United States has paid China, exerted undue influence over its operations, in ways that serve their own interests, and not particularly the interests of the global public. This all became obvious during the COVID pandemic WHO (under pressure from China), suppressed reports at critical junctures. E.g. human to human transmission WHO worked with China to promote the fiction that covid virus originated from bats or pangolins, rather than from a Chinese government sponsored research lab in Wuhan. WHO failed to maintain an organization characterized by transparency and fair governance, by and for its member states. WHO acts like it has forgotten that its members must remain accountable to their own citizens, and not to transnational or corporate interests. Staff at WHO are conscientious people who sincerely believe in what they're doing. WHO has done important work in the past Too often though, WHO priorities have increasingly reflected the biases and interests of corporate medicine. Too often it has allowed political agendas like pushing harmful gender ideology to hijack its core mission. And too often it has become the tool of politics and turned its back on promoting health and health security. Global cooperation on health is still critically important but it isn't working very well under the WHO as the failures of the COVID era demonstrate. The WHO has not even come to terms with its failures during COVID, let alone made significant reforms. Instead, it has doubled down with the pandemic agreement, which will lock in all of the dysfunctions of the WHO pandemic response. Well, we're not going to participate in that. We need to reboot the whole system United States Continue to focus on infectious disease and pandemic preparedness, But shifting the priorities to focus on chronic diseases It's the chronic disease epidemic that is sickening our people and bankrupting our health care system. Healthcare US to serve the needs of the public instead of industry profit taking. We are Removing food dyes and other harmful additives from our food supply. Investigating the causes of autism and other chronic diseases. Seeking to reduce consumption of ultrarocessed foods. Support lifestyle changes that will bolster the immune systems and transform the health of our people. Few of these efforts lend themselves easily to profits or serve established special interests. These changes require systemic overhaul We'd like to see a similar change of priorities on the global stage. E.g. Millions of global citizens have seen a reduction in premature death due to HIV, TB, and malaria. Let's return to the core focus of global health and global health security. Back to reducing infectious disease burden and the spread of diseases of pandemic potential. I urge the world's health ministers and the WHO to take our withdrawal from the organization as a wake-up call. We just want international cooperation to happen in a way that's fair and efficient and transparent for all the member states. We've already been in contact with like-minded countries, and we encourage others to consider joining us. Free international health cooperation The straight jacket of political interference by corrupting influences of the pharmaceutical companies From adversarial nations and their NGO proxies. I would like to take this opportunity to invite my fellow health ministers around the world into a new era of cooperation. We don't have to suffer the limits of a morib Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices