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Covid-19: WHO treaty on future pandemics is being watered down, warn health leaders

(Published 31 May 2023)

 Luke Taylor

The World Health Organization’s new pandemic preparedness treaty is being watered down and stripped of the key stipulations needed to prevent another global health disaster, say leading international health experts and civil society groups.

WHO’s 194 member states agreed in December 2021 to draw up a new convention to ensure that the world would be prepared for future global health threats and to prevent the “catastrophic failure” seen during the covid pandemic.1

The “zero draft” of the accord, published in February, had excited observers because its scope went beyond the closest existing legally binding framework, the International Health Regulations. That draft stipulated strong obligations for information sharing and the importance of having a strong health workforce and universal healthcare, among other requirements.

The latest 42 page document, leaked during the World Health Assembly, has revealed that many passages that experts regard as key to improving global health have been weakened or made optional, meaning that they could be removed in the final draft.2

“The text contains promising elements, such as a strong emphasis on transparency, but it is also a significant step back from where we were just a few weeks ago when the last intergovernmental negotiations wrapped up,” said Suerie Moon, co-director of the Global Health Centre, a research centre focusing on global health governance.

Removal

The zero draft had excited civil society groups, as it reflected today’s increasingly progressive and broader concepts of global health. It said, “The parties recognize the need for resilient health systems, rooted in universal health coverage (UHC), to mitigate the shocks caused by pandemics and to ensure continuity of health services, thus preventing health systems from becoming overwhelmed.” However, references to equality in the latest draft have been diluted, universal health coverage is no longer a guiding principle, and all references to gender equality and community engagement have been removed.

Arush Lal, a civil society representative for WHO’s Access to Covid-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator, described the changes as “a major oversight.”

The February draft had considered equality to be fundamental in tackling global health threats. It stated, “Effective pandemic prevention, preparedness, response and recovery cannot be achieved without political will and commitments in addressing the structural challenges in inequitable access to fair, equitable and timely access to affordable, safe and efficacious pandemic-related products and services, essential health services, information and social support, as well as tackling the inequities in terms of technology, health workforce, infrastructure and financing, among other aspects.” That passage has now been swapped for, “Equity shall be at the centre of pandemic prevention, preparedness, response and recovery.”

Roojin Habibi, a lawyer specialising in global health at York University in Ontario, said that the removal of three paragraphs on guaranteed human rights “is particularly concerning given the egregious violations of rights we’ve seen across the board and in every country around the world during the pandemic.”

Weaker language

As well as the removal of passages on core issues, the language on countries’ obligations to uphold the accord has been toned down. Experts say that if the wording is not strengthened the new treaty will lack teeth and countries will continue to shirk their commitments.

On the duty to share research and information on vaccine pricing, which could prevent the bidding wars that left poorer nations without jabs during the covid pandemic, the latest draft says that states must share information “in accordance with national laws and as appropriate taking into account the extent of public funding.”

Jesse Bump, executive director of the Takemi Program in International Health at the Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health in Massachusetts, said that those caveats meant that countries could draw up legislation to bypass their agreement and were highly open to interpretation. The latest document also features more “extremely weak terms” such as “as appropriate” and “encourage,” where stronger language such as “must” is needed, he said.

“The draft reveals that powerful nations are using the consultation and drafting processes to waste time, circumvent meaningful change, and evade accountability,” said Bump. “Nations are not serious, and it shows in this draft.”

Vaccine non-equity

Clare Wenham, professor of global health policy at the London School of Economics, UK, said that the weaker language on equity was a particular concern for vaccine equity. “The overarching issue with the whole covid response was a lack of vaccine equity, and if this isn’t going to be addressed by the pandemic treaty, why would any low or middle income country government ratify the [treaty] in due course?” she asked.

Francisco Viegas, medical innovation policy adviser at Doctors Without Borders, told The BMJ that despite “some very small positive elements that were not in the zero draft,” such as a new clause requiring countries to share genomic sequencing, “commitment remains weak, and the draft lacks sufficient obligations on issues that would [otherwise] be game changing.”

More WHO negotiations on the treaty are set to follow in June, and some passages that were removed in the latest draft could be reinstated in the final version of the accord, expected to be published in 2024. More likely, said Moon, the accord’s scope will be further narrowed and obligations for WHO member states dialled down.

“I am concerned to see this degree of backsliding with still a year to go before negotiations conclude,” she said. “Areas that seemed relatively non-controversial, such as putting access conditions on public funding of research and development of vaccines, drugs, and diagnostics, received a tremendous amount of support from a wide range of stakeholders [but] have disappeared from the draft.

“Governments can agree to strengthen the agreement, but this backsliding means it will be more difficult to climb back up what was already a steep hill.”

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Satan Is Real. Do You Recognize Him?

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BY GERALD FLURRY

Most people are totally ignorant of the most powerful spiritual force in the world today.

Satan-worshipers are getting bolder. The Grammy Awards this year featured a presentation of a song titled “Unholy” by performers dressed as the devil and his demons. The number of public schools in America hosting “Satan clubs” has been increasing. The number of people openly identifying as Satanists is growing.

These trends get headlines and have many people concerned. Such blatant evil signals the depth of moral and spiritual sickness of our society. Please read our feature story in this Trumpet issue, “The Dangerous Rise of Demonism.” We also have an article about how Satan is using popular music to reach many people today, especially youths (along with our infographic).

Yet the real threat that Satan and his demons pose in our world goes far beyond the obvious examples.

Very few people really understand the devil described in the Bible. This is a being with tremendous power. Isaiah 14 says he made the Earth to tremble and he shakes kingdoms and empires. Different translations of verse 12 call him “crusher of nations” (Emphasized Bible) and say that he “didst lay low the nations” (American Standard Version) and “enslaved the nations” (The Jerusalem Bible).

That is a much bigger problem than a single perverse performance at an awards show. This powerful spirit being is, in fact, “the god of this world” (2 Corinthians 4:4). Revelation 12:9 warns that he has deceived the whole world! So few people today understand this!

How can we be free from this powerful monster? How can we face and deal with him? The Bible answers.

“Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you” (James 4:7). If you just submit to God, Satan will flee. That’s quite a power God gives you and me—especially considering what the Bible reveals about the devil’s immense power. We don’t have to fear him if we use God’s power.

Beast Powers

Revelation 13 discusses a political power that has dominated the world scene throughout history. It is described in symbol as a beast with seven heads and 10 horns. This represents the world-ruling Roman Empire. It started in 31 b.c. It absorbed all the empires that preceded it and occupied their territory. Compare verse 2 of this chapter with Daniel 7, and you see the components of those other empires: the head of the lion, representing the Babylonian Empire; the legs of the bear, symbolizing the Persian Empire; the swiftness, cunning and cruelty of the leopard, which symbolized Alexander’s Greco-Macedonian Empire. So God used familiar animals to represent the first three dominant empires. But for the Roman Empire, He combined all those animals into one monster. No single beast on Earth adequately defined the Roman Empire.

“And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast” (Revelation 13:3). This wound was inflicted in a.d. 476, when the Roman Empire was defeated, and healed in a.d. 554, with the Imperial Restoration—and it became the Holy Roman Empire, receiving the blessing of the Roman Catholic Church and combining the religious element with the political-military empire. Other prophecies show there would be seven resurrections of this beast—and the seventh and final of these resurrections is about to burst on the world scene.

“And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?” (verse 4). Every indication is that this rising European power will be more powerful than America, China and Russia. How is that possible? It’s because they worship the devil! This gives them special power. Your Bible says they will become the superpower of superpowers!

This is a prophecy about a European superpower that we must be aware of. It is going to come on the scene and wreak havoc for 3½ years—after which God will smash it!

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