In response to the U.S. government ’s announcement that it will end its relationship with the World Health Organization, a report published recently by the British magazine Nature quoted several experts as saying that this practice of the United States will cause damage to global public health and scientific research cooperation.
In the article, experts expressed their opinions on the consequences of this move by the US government. For example, it will affect the prevention and control of polio and malaria, and will hinder the new crown. Virus information sharing will damage global scientific research cooperation, and the United States will also lose its influence in global health action.
The global response to the new crown epidemic requires international cooperation and coordination. The report quoted Rebecca Katz, director of the Center for Global Health Science and Safety at Georgetown University, as saying: “In this epidemic, people have already said that we are flying while building aircraft, and this (US) move It ’s like the window was removed while the plane was flying in midair. ”
Experts said that if the US ’s actions lead to eradication of polio, fight tuberculosis, AIDS, malaria Projects in other fields are forced to shrink, which may cause more people to suffer disease and die.
Aiming at the US ’s claim that it will fund global health projects through other means, Amanda Glassman, a senior researcher at the US Think Tank ’s Global Development Center, said the US still needs to work with WHO And should increase responsibility in this regard. WHO has projects in many countries that have not yet established too much international cooperation. The United States expects that other forms of international health cooperation will be very difficult to play too much, because it will take many years to establish with other countries. Corresponding partnership.
Even if there are projects set up by the United States in some countries, it still needs the coordination of WHO. Glassman said that without such an organization to coordinate, “we will see more disorder in the global health field.”
(Originally titled “: Experts believe that the termination of US-WHO relations will harm international health cooperation”)