Financial Times: Donald Trump’s team seeks to Pull out of WHO ‘on Day One’
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Action on World Health – Take Back Control
Health policies that infringe on national sovereignty must remain under the control of nation states – not unelected global bodies. Instead of one-size-fits-all treaties and mandates that dictate or put pressure on governments to implement public health measures that interfere with domestic policies, the WHO should advise and facilitate international cooperation. We call on our elected politicians to demand a review of existing WHO treaties and agreements at a national level with a focus on taking back control of national public health in areas where the WHO is overreaching.
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WHO accuses Nigel Farage of spreading misinformation about pandemic treaty
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/16/who-accuses-nigel-farage-of-spreading-misinformation-about-pandemic-treaty
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Nigel Farage’s anti-WHO campaign has link to nicotine products industry Action on World Health co-founder’s firm provides services to organisation that advocates for nicotine pouches Rowena Mason. Whitehall editor Thu 21 Nov 2024
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/nov/21/nigel-farage-anti-who-campaign-nicotine-products-industry
Nigel Farage’s group campaigning against the World Health Organization(WHO) is staffed by consultants who work with the nicotine products industry, the Guardian can reveal. Farage is the chair and a co-founder of Action on World Health, which campaigns to reform or replace the WHO, arguing that it should not be putting pressure on governments to bring in public health measures. The other co-founder is David Roach, whose firm provides secretariat services to the Global Initiative on Novel Nicotine, which advocates for nicotine pouches and other products. Roach’s firm has also lobbied in the past year on behalf of a vaping company called ANDS.
In the Action on World Health “manifesto”, released before the UK election, it opposed “excessive regulation” on vaping. It said: “Adults should be treated like adults, instead of the WHO bullying countries into treating its citizens like children through excessive regulations on food, alcohol, fizzy drinks, and vaping products that are 95% less harmful than smoking.”
Farage launched the group in May, and his role at the organisation does not appear on the MPs’ register of interests. It is understood Farage has made a late declaration to the register in recent weeks, but it has not yet appeared publicly.
His spokesperson had no comment on the group’s links to consultants working with the novel nicotine industry, which were uncovered jointly with the Good Law Project.
The spokesperson said: “Nigel Farage is not paid in his role at Action on World Health. He is chairman of the organisation because he has long believed that the WHO is bloated, undemocratic and a complete catastrophe.”
Roach is the campaign director of Action on World Health, and two more of his staff members from his company, David Roach Consulting, are listed as working for the organisation…..More