Health Policy Watch review
The rapid withdrawal of international health aid by the United States constitutes a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC), according to Professor Matthew Herder and colleagues writing in the BMJ this week.
According to the World Health Organization’s International Health Regulations, a PHEIC is “an extraordinary event which is determined to constitute a public health risk to other states through the international spread of disease and to potentially require a coordinated international response”.
“Multiple estimates predict reduced US funding will lead to millions of deaths by 2030,” argue Herder, from the Dalhousie University’s school of law in Canada, Professor Roojin Habibi from Ottawa University, Fatima Hassan, director of Health Justice Initiative in South Africa, and Andrew Hill, visiting research fellow at the University of Liverpool in the UK.
In response, they want the World Health Organization to declare a PHEIC in order to galvanise resources to address the US actions.
Read the full review here.
Access the BMJ analysis “The United States is driving a public health emergency of international concern” here.
Source : Health Policy Watch
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