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<p>I like this very much. But Claudio, how come I don't just receive
this through PHM exchange? You put me in copie caché?</p>
<p>Maybe I am not on the list any more for some strange reason! Do
you know anything about this?</p>
<p>Thanks, hugs alison<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Le 01.02.20 à 03:59, Claudio Schuftan a
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style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%" lang="DE">THE
LUST FOR THE PLAGUE </span></b><font size="1"><span
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm
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lang="DE">If only
one "new" virus triggers an alarm at a time, the scandal
of the
thousands of avoidable victims of measles or
tuberculosis becomes smaller and
smaller. <span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm
8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><b><span
lang="DE">By Dr.
Andreas Wulf, medico international and PHM<span></span></span></b></p>
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lang="DE"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm
8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><b><span
lang="DE">What a
new epidemic promises<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm
8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><span
lang="DE">It seems that everyone is rushing to catch
this new infectious disease, already announced as a
"pandemic", to
forget for a moment the climate crisis, the Libyan crisis
and the Brexit
crisis. And all the players have their own interests at
stake.<span> </span>A new epidemic promises new research
funds,
new resources for vaccines and medicines development, new
prevention
activities, new jobs and new experts panels and
conferences, and a welcome
change from the often boring and tedious routines of
everyday work for a
functioning healthcare system. This, however, should
actually be exactly what
it is all about: strengthening the daily work of the
health system so that all people
in need can be helped in case of need.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm
8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><span
lang="DE">If always an emergency has to be declared
first, so that the question of continuous monitoring of
health hazards comes
up, at some point nobody believes that surveillance should
be part of the
routine tasks (and cannot be delegated to a "rapid
reaction force")
to prepare a health system for such situations. And if
only one "new"
virus triggers the alarm, the scandal of the avoidable
victims of well-known
killers such as measles or tuberculosis becomes smaller
and smaller - as
currently shown by the comparison between the 9,000
confirmed fatalities of the
measles outbreak in the DR Congo since 2019 and the 132
current deaths caused
by the new corona virus globally, most of them in the 11
million metropolis of
Wuhan.<span></span></span></p>
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lang="DE"><span> </span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm
8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><b><span
lang="DE">The
daily management of global health threats is neglected<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm
8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><span
lang="DE">WHO currently complains of acute "donor
fatigue" in the fight against measles in Congo and lists
weak health
systems, logistical difficulties and malnutrition of the
population as
co-factors of the epidemic. Here sits the dilemma of such
"disaster health
policy", as it is currently evident in the Corona case: in
the simulation
of an activist system of global health security policy
that prioritizes events
because this allows attention, resources and significance
to be mobilized while
neglecting the day-to-day management of global health
threats.<span></span></span></p>
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lang="DE"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm
8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><span
lang="DE">If global <span> </span>health policy was
really serious about its
commitment to universal health coverage, then the
difference would have to be
made here: Despite all the necessary attention to
potential global health
threats, today more than ever it is a matter of
structurally strengthening
local basic health systems, which are also necessary to
cope with epidemics in
an emergency. This was demonstrated in the Ebola crisis in
West Africa, and it
will be shown again if the corona virus proves to be much
more dangerous than
it fortunately still looks at present.<span></span></span></p>
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lang="DE"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm
8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><i><span
lang="DE"><span> </span>"Pandemics teach us that all
human
beings are born equal and therefore mortal in the same
way. In line with this,
the danger of a global pandemic can only be averted if
the concept of
"health for all" is finally realized and the simple
truth is
recognized everywhere in the world that every public
health system is only as strong
as its poorest patient".<span></span></span></i></p>
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8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><b><span
style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%" lang="DE">From:
The host is always the stranger
of Satya Sivaraman. The journalist, author and filmmaker
lives in different
places in South and Southeast Asia and is media
consultant of the
"People's Health Movement".<span></span></span></b></p>
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