The draft of the IHR amendments and an accompanying draft Pandemic Agreement are both still under negotiation a month short of the intended vote at the World Health Assembly (WHA) in late May. Together, they reflect a sea change in international public health over the past two decades.
They aim to further centralize control of public health policy within the WHO. For more information, visit https://brownstone.org/reppare/
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In today’s installment, we will examine the One Health agenda and how it threatens to destroy both food freedom and medical freedom.
The term “One Health” was coined after the first SARS outbreak in the early 2000s to reflect the danger of new diseases emerging from human-animal contact. It refers to the idea of public health being not just about your health but also about animal and “planetary” health. It is framed in language designed to sound appealing and holistic.
On September 20th our representatives meeting at the United Nations (UN) will sign off on a ‘Declaration’ titled: “Political Declaration of the United Nations General Assembly High-level Meeting on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response.” This was announced as a ‘silence procedure,’ meaning that States not responding will be deemed supporters of the text.
