The Work of Factions and the Pandemic’s Political Collapse
We are now facing a regime that is losing, is aware that it is losing, and wants at all costs to survive even if it means damning everyone…
Tag: WHO
COVID-19: THE SYSTEM, Part 2
In Part 1 we ended with the documentary’s discussion of the type of business model that has been created around COVID-19, or to match the title of the…
COVID-19: THE SYSTEM, Part 1
On March 11, 2020, when the World Health Organization announced that COVID-19’s spread was now a pandemic, and on March 13, 2020, when here in Quebec a total…
The World Health Organization (WHO): A Problem of Trust
Over the past twenty years or so, what has been the record of the World Health Organization when it comes to major public health crises? Has the WHO…
On the Search for the Origins of COVID-19: A Forum by Andrew Lakoff
More than a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, the origin of the virus causing the disease remains uncertain. The predominant theory is that its emergence in human populations…
Intimate connections and singular embodiments: disability in times of the Covid-19 pandemic by Helena Fietz
In Brazil, most state governors and city mayors in Brazil have been following the World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines and, in defiance of federal government protocol, have adopted…
Weltgesundheitspolitik zwischen Panik und Verdrängung
Inmitten der Corona-Pandemie steckt die Weltgesundheitsorganisation WHO in der Krise. Ihr Schicksal hängt davon ab, ob sich die wohlhabendsten Staaten der Erde zu einem nachhaltigen Engagement für die…
Human rights/human capital: a hundred years of ‘universal’ health coverage as a global goal by Martin Gorsky
Promotional materials from the global campaign to achieve Universal Health Coverage by the year 2030. Copyright UHC2030 – reproduced here under ‘fair use’ for academic purposes. “Health for…
Unzureichend, aber unentbehrlich. Die WHO und die Geschichte der globalen Gesundheit
Die USA kritisieren die WHO scharf: Präsident Trump wirft ihr eine mangelnde Distanz gegenüber China vor. Doch diese Haltung ist nichts Neues. Die USA standen vielmehr seit Gründung…
How to Make Sense of “Traditional (Chinese) Medicine” In a Time of Covid-19: Cold War Origin Stories and the WHO’s Role in Making Space for Polyglot Therapeutics by Helen Tilley
Note: I wrote this for anyone trying to “teach the virus,” something I will soon be doing myself. The question in the title is meant to signal that…
Achieving Universal Health Coverage in Zambia: state accountability and universality in a new community health worker programme by James Wintrup
Promotional materials from the global campaign to achieve Universal Health Coverage by the year 2030. Copyright UHC2030 – reproduced here under ‘fair use’ for academic purposes. “Health for…
Utopian aspirations in a dystopian world: “Health for all” and the Universal Health Coverage agenda – an Introduction by Ruth J. Prince
Promotional materials from the global campaign to achieve Universal Health Coverage by the year 2030. Copyright UHC2030 – reproduced here under ‘fair use’ for academic purposes.&nbs…
The return of the plague-spreader
Written in lockdown amid the pandemic, this post speculates about the political and epistemological implications of ‘middle-class’ reactions to the present crisis. It is also a cry of…
The Invention of Infodemics: On the Outbreak of Zika and Rumors by Meg Stalcup
For Portuguese click here. For French click here. In December 2015, a Brazilian photographer with The Associated Press took a photo of four-month-old José Wesley being bathed in…