World Health Organization
WHO is failing Africa on malaria
IPN Opinion article
Despite the WHO's pledge to halve the number of malaria cases by 2010, the disease seems to be on the increase. IPN's Philip Stevens examines what is going wrong for the WHO, and suggests that a winning strategy must involve DDT spraying in dwellings.
WHO On Wrong Track With African Aids-Drug Drive
IPN Opinion article
NO ONE can accuse the World Health Organisation (WHO) of lacking ambition in its attempts to get to grips with the AIDS crisis sweeping much of sub-Saharan Africa.
Its "three by five" initiative - a plan to put 3-million people on lifeextending antiretroviral treatment by the end of this year - is arguably the single biggest push that any multilateral body has yet undertaken to try to tackle the disease.
Unfortunately, according to figures released last week by the WHO, the project looks like its going to miss its target spectacularly.
WHO's in Charge?
IPN Opinion article
The strategic documents coming out of the WHO lay bare the power the big NGOs now have in shaping its agenda - and it is an agenda that promotes the failed redistributory economics of the past.
Wealth means health -- progress, not regulation, improves lives
IPN Opinion article
Environment and health ministers from the WHO\'s European region will meet next week in Budapest, Hungary, to discuss 'the effects of a degraded environment on children's health.' This article highlights the role of technological progress in solving human health and environment problems, often overlooked by activists and international agencies.
Roll back malaria, indeed : experts say international agencies far from achieving a "malaria free" future
IPN Press release
Keep Politics Out of Fighting Disease
IPN Opinion article
The WHO has once again denied Taiwan the right to participate in the annual World Health Assembly...
Public health, medical knowledge and human lives should not be used as political bargaining chips. It is especially odd that Beijing would resort to threats in the WHO forum, when Beijing receives far more in aid from the WHO than it contributes, while Taiwan is eager to contribute to the WHO for the benefit of all peoples, including mainland Chinese. The cash-strapped WHO would surely welcome new contributors to its coffers and to its knowledge and capabilities.
Un-ban DDT
IPN Opinion article
"Bangladesh should at once re-start spraying of households and the environment with DDT to save lives in thousands without paying attention to any international environmentalist's outrage. The people must reject WHO's Global Strategy to provide individual medical treatment that is unrealistic, impossible and unavailable."
