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<div style="margin:0 0 1.5em;padding:0"><img src="https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/content/images/2022/06/people_s_health_dispatch_double_size-2-.jpg" alt="" style="border:none;max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto;width:auto;height:auto" width="600" height="71"></div><h2 id="m_-8530844255082989790this-fortnight" style="margin-top:0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';line-height:1.11em;font-weight:700;margin:1.5em 0 0.5em 0;font-size:32px">This fortnight </h2><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em">Country delegates are once again meeting in Geneva, this time for the <a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/06/12/wto-and-pandemic-response/" style="color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">12th Ministerial Conference</a> of the World Trade Organization (WTO). For almost two years, the WTO held the TRIPS waiver proposal on its agenda, but failed to secure any significant progress. Instead, under the pressure of the European Union and other Global North countries, those attending the meeting are more likely to adopt an alternative decision with none of the significance or impact of the original proposal.</p><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em">The original TRIPS waiver aimed to lift intellectual property (<a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/06/12/private-monopolies-hinder-progress-on-public-health-intellectual-property-at-the-75th-world-health-assembly/" style="color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">IP</a>) privileges in the case of Covid-19 products, putting people’s health ahead of the pharmaceutical sector’s profits. The current intellectual property system was questioned during the 75th World Health Assembly as well, but WHO members failed to clearly condemn its harmful effects on health.</p><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em">The World Health Assembly also heard discussions on <a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/06/11/obesity-pandemic-at-the-world-health-assembly-when-the-unhinged-market-feeds-disease/" style="color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">non-communicable diseases</a>, including the impact of commercial determinants of health. Similarly to what happened during the conversation on IP privileges, delegates failed to plan concrete steps for countering corporate strategies of sidelining public health advice in marketing and sales of products which fuel the non-communicable diseases pandemic, including <a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/06/11/world-health-assembly-falls-short-of-insulating-food-and-alcohol-plans-from-commercial-interests/" style="color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">alcohol </a>and ultra-processed food.</p><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em">The industries responsible for aggressive marketing of harmful products are not limiting themselves to making the most of the space they already occupy. They are also investing large amounts of money into <a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/06/12/is-corporate-lobbying-influencing-us-positions-at-the-who/" style="color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">lobbying </a>delegates’ positions at the WHO. This seems to be the case in the United States, where a recent report shows millions of corporate dollars being spent on influencing US delegates' standpoints.</p><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em">The success of corporate strategies in influencing WHO's work depends at least in part on the ability of the organization to secure adequate funding from its members. The World Health Assembly finally agreed to <a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/06/11/sustainably-financing-the-world-health-organization/" style="color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">increase </a>the amount of assessed contributions from member states, but it is unlikely this will be enough to resolve all financial problems faced by the WHO. We look more closely at the structure of WHO’s budget in our <i>Data Speaks</i> section.</p><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em"><a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/06/08/trade-unions-and-civil-society-ask-who-members-for-stronger-commitment-to-health-workers-rights/" style="color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Health workers</a> also found themselves on the World Health Assembly’s agenda. We met with Baba Aye, Health and Social Sector Officer at Public Services International, to discuss what lies ahead for workers and trade unions in the health sector following the assembly’s decisions.</p><hr style="display:block;width:100%;margin:3em 0;padding:0;height:1px;border:0;border-top:1px solid #e5eff5"><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em"><b style="font-weight:700"><a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/06/12/wto-and-pandemic-response/" style="color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">World Trade Organization and Pandemic response: Time is up</a></b></p><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em">At the 12th Ministerial Conference of the WTO taking place from 12-16 June, trade delegates are likely to pass a meaningless Covid-19 decision in an attempt to safeguard the organization’s face after months of botched negotiations for a suspension of harmful trade rules on intellectual property</p><div style="margin:0 0 1.5em;padding:0"><img src="https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/content/images/2022/06/WTO.png" alt="" style="border:none;max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto;width:auto;height:auto" width="600" height="337"></div><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em"><b style="font-weight:700"><a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/06/12/private-monopolies-hinder-progress-on-public-health-intellectual-property-at-the-75th-world-health-assembly/" style="color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Private monopolies hinder progress on public health: intellectual property at the 75th World Health Assembly</a></b></p><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em">Obstruction by pharmaceutical companies from the Global North and misuse of monopoly privileges continue to slow down research into new vaccines and medicines, with disastrous effects for people’s health in the Global South. Discussions at the 75th World Health Assembly did little to address this</p><div style="margin:0 0 1.5em;padding:0"><img src="https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/content/images/2022/06/IP.jpg" alt="" style="border:none;max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto;width:auto;height:auto" width="600" height="337"></div><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em"><b style="font-weight:700"><a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/06/11/world-health-assembly-falls-short-of-insulating-food-and-alcohol-plans-from-commercial-interests/" style="color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">World Health Assembly falls short of insulating food and alcohol plans from commercial interests</a></b></p><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em">Without stronger action to counter the influence of transnational alcohol and food companies, industry-propelled health harm will continue to persist</p><div style="margin:0 0 1.5em;padding:0"><img src="https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/content/images/size/w1600/2022/06/Alcohol.jpg" alt="" style="border:none;max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto;width:auto;height:auto" width="600" height="337"></div><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em"><b style="font-weight:700"><a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/06/11/obesity-pandemic-at-the-world-health-assembly-when-the-unhinged-market-feeds-disease/" style="color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Obesity pandemic at the World Health Assembly: when the unhinged market feeds disease</a></b></p><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em">This year’s World Health Assembly prominently featured discussions obesity. However, the implementation of serious policies to deal with the issue is being undermined by the multi-stakeholder approach, which is letting industries influence the conversation</p><div style="margin:0 0 1.5em;padding:0"><img src="https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/content/images/size/w1600/2022/06/Obesity.jpg" alt="" style="border:none;max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto;width:auto;height:auto" width="600" height="337"></div><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em"><b style="font-weight:700"><a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/06/12/is-corporate-lobbying-influencing-us-positions-at-the-who/" style="color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Is corporate lobbying influencing US positions at the WHO?</a></b></p><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em">A new report shows that US corporations and their umbrella organizations are allocating increasing amounts of money for shaping delegates’ interventions at WHO, with potentially disastrous effects on health</p><div style="margin:0 0 1.5em;padding:0"><img src="https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/content/images/2022/06/Lobbying.png" alt="" style="border:none;max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto;width:auto;height:auto" width="600" height="337"></div><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em"><b style="font-weight:700"><a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/06/11/sustainably-financing-the-world-health-organization/" style="color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Sustainably financing the World Health Organization</a></b></p><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em">Sustainable financing of the WHO was one of the most anticipated topics of the 75th World Health Assembly. Although progress has been made through efforts of a designated working group, worries remain that the planned increase will not be enough to meet actual needs</p><div style="margin:0 0 1.5em;padding:0"><img src="https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/content/images/2022/06/Finance-1.jpg" alt="" style="border:none;max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto;width:auto;height:auto" width="600" height="337"></div><hr style="display:block;width:100%;margin:3em 0;padding:0;height:1px;border:0;border-top:1px solid #e5eff5"><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em"><b style="font-weight:700"><a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/06/08/trade-unions-and-civil-society-ask-who-members-for-stronger-commitment-to-health-workers-rights/" style="color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Video: Trade unions and civil society ask WHO members for stronger commitment to health workers’ rights</a></b></p><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em">Baba Aye from Public Services International (PSI) looks back at the major discussion points and highlights of the 75th World Health Assembly</p><div class="m_-8530844255082989790kg-embed-card" style="margin:0 0 1.5em;padding:0">
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| NewsClick</div><div style="display:-webkit-box;overflow-y:hidden;margin-top:12px;max-height:40px;color:#738a94;font-size:13px;line-height:1.5em;font-weight:400">The stark vaccine inequity during the COVID-19 pandemic has failed to appeal to the humanitarian side of the Big Pharma and the developed countries representing its interests.</div><div class="m_-8530844255082989790kg-bookmark-metadata" style="display:flex;margin-top:14px;color:#15212a;font-size:13px;font-weight:400"><img src="https://www.newsclick.in/themes/newsclick/favicon.ico" alt="" style="border:none;max-width:100%;margin-right:8px;width:22px;height:22px" width="22" height="22"><span style="line-height:1.5em">Newsclick</span><span style="overflow:hidden;max-width:240px;line-height:1.5em;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:nowrap"><span style="margin:0 6px">•</span><a href=”/taxonomy/term/35455″ hreflang=“en”>Richa Chintan</a></span></div></div><div class="m_-8530844255082989790kg-bookmark-thumbnail" style="min-width:140px;max-width:180px;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-size:cover;background-position:center;border-radius:0 2px 2px 0;background-image:url('https://www.newsclick.in/sites/default/files/2022-06/trip%20waiver.PNG')"><img src="https://www.newsclick.in/sites/default/files/2022-06/trip%20waiver.PNG" alt="" style="border:none;max-width:100%;display:none"></div></a></div><div class="m_-8530844255082989790kg-bookmark-card" style="margin:0 0 1.5em;padding:0;width:100%;background:#ffffff;margin-top:0"><a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/06/05/us-covid-response-war-and-profiteering-remains-the-priority/" style="display:flex;min-height:148px;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Open Sans','Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;border-radius:3px;border:1px solid #e5eff5;color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><div style="display:inline-block;width:100%;padding:20px"><div style="color:#15212a;font-size:15px;line-height:1.5em;font-weight:600">US COVID response: War and profiteering remains the priority : Peoples Dispatch</div><div style="display:-webkit-box;overflow-y:hidden;margin-top:12px;max-height:40px;color:#738a94;font-size:13px;line-height:1.5em;font-weight:400">The death toll in the US due to COVID-19 has crossed 1million. The richest country in the world has stumbled in controlling the pandemic and the poorest have suffered the most</div><div class="m_-8530844255082989790kg-bookmark-metadata" style="display:flex;margin-top:14px;color:#15212a;font-size:13px;font-weight:400"><img src="https://peoplesdispatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/cropped-FavIcon-270x270.png" alt="" style="border:none;max-width:100%;margin-right:8px;width:22px;height:22px" width="22" height="22"><span style="line-height:1.5em">Peoples Dispatch</span><span style="overflow:hidden;max-width:240px;line-height:1.5em;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:nowrap"><span style="margin:0 6px">•</span>Peoples Dispatch</span></div></div><div class="m_-8530844255082989790kg-bookmark-thumbnail" style="min-width:140px;max-width:180px;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-size:cover;background-position:center;border-radius:0 2px 2px 0;background-image:url('https://peoplesdispatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/maxresdefault-6.jpg')"><img src="https://peoplesdispatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/maxresdefault-6.jpg" alt="" style="border:none;max-width:100%;display:none"></div></a></div><div class="m_-8530844255082989790kg-bookmark-card" style="margin:0 0 1.5em;padding:0;width:100%;background:#ffffff;margin-top:0"><a href="https://theconversation.com/we-still-need-a-vaccine-patent-waiver-but-not-the-one-on-offer-at-the-world-trade-organization-meeting-181235?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=bylinetwitterbutton" style="display:flex;min-height:148px;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Open Sans','Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;border-radius:3px;border:1px solid #e5eff5;color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><div style="display:inline-block;width:100%;padding:20px"><div style="color:#15212a;font-size:15px;line-height:1.5em;font-weight:600">We still need a vaccine patent waiver, but not the one on offer at the World Trade Organization meeting</div><div style="display:-webkit-box;overflow-y:hidden;margin-top:12px;max-height:40px;color:#738a94;font-size:13px;line-height:1.5em;font-weight:400">Waiving patent rights on COVID-19 vaccines and drugs is still crucial to ensure access globally, but the waiver on the table at the June World Trade Organization meeting doesn’t do the job.</div><div class="m_-8530844255082989790kg-bookmark-metadata" style="display:flex;margin-top:14px;color:#15212a;font-size:13px;font-weight:400"><img src="https://cdn.theconversation.com/static/tc/@theconversation/ui/dist/esm/logos/web-app-logo-192x192-2d05bdd6de6328146de80245d4685946.png" alt="" style="border:none;max-width:100%;margin-right:8px;width:22px;height:22px" width="22" height="22"><span style="line-height:1.5em">The Conversation</span><span style="overflow:hidden;max-width:240px;line-height:1.5em;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:nowrap"><span style="margin:0 6px">•</span>Ronald Labonte</span></div></div><div class="m_-8530844255082989790kg-bookmark-thumbnail" style="min-width:140px;max-width:180px;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-size:cover;background-position:center;border-radius:0 2px 2px 0;background-image:url('https://images.theconversation.com/files/466910/original/file-20220603-17-5nwz4k.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0\000026rect=47%2C884%2C5321%2C2660\000026q=45\000026auto=format\000026w=1356\000026h=668\000026fit=crop')"><img src="https://images.theconversation.com/files/466910/original/file-20220603-17-5nwz4k.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&rect=47%2C884%2C5321%2C2660&q=45&auto=format&w=1356&h=668&fit=crop" alt="" style="border:none;max-width:100%;display:none"></div></a></div><div class="m_-8530844255082989790kg-bookmark-card" style="margin:0 0 1.5em;padding:0;width:100%;background:#ffffff;margin-top:0"><a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/06/03/palestinian-health-activist-shatha-odeh-released-from-israeli-imprisonment/" style="display:flex;min-height:148px;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Open Sans','Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;border-radius:3px;border:1px solid #e5eff5;color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><div style="display:inline-block;width:100%;padding:20px"><div style="color:#15212a;font-size:15px;line-height:1.5em;font-weight:600">Palestinian health activist Shatha Odeh released from Israeli imprisonment : Peoples Dispatch</div><div style="display:-webkit-box;overflow-y:hidden;margin-top:12px;max-height:40px;color:#738a94;font-size:13px;line-height:1.5em;font-weight:400">60-year-old Odeh has been freed after spending 11 months in arbitrary detention following her arrest by Israeli Occupation Forces in July, 2021</div><div class="m_-8530844255082989790kg-bookmark-metadata" style="display:flex;margin-top:14px;color:#15212a;font-size:13px;font-weight:400"><img src="https://peoplesdispatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/cropped-FavIcon-270x270.png" alt="" style="border:none;max-width:100%;margin-right:8px;width:22px;height:22px" width="22" height="22"><span style="line-height:1.5em">Peoples Dispatch</span><span style="overflow:hidden;max-width:240px;line-height:1.5em;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:nowrap"><span style="margin:0 6px">•</span>Peoples Dispatch</span></div></div><div class="m_-8530844255082989790kg-bookmark-thumbnail" style="min-width:140px;max-width:180px;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-size:cover;background-position:center;border-radius:0 2px 2px 0;background-image:url('https://peoplesdispatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/shatha-odeh-arrest-israel-HWC.jpeg')"><img src="https://peoplesdispatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/shatha-odeh-arrest-israel-HWC.jpeg" alt="" style="border:none;max-width:100%;display:none"></div></a></div><div class="m_-8530844255082989790kg-bookmark-card" style="margin:0 0 1.5em;padding:0;width:100%;background:#ffffff;margin-top:0"><a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/06/01/medical-lab-scientists-in-ireland-demand-parity-in-wages-and-recruitment/" style="display:flex;min-height:148px;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Open Sans','Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;border-radius:3px;border:1px solid #e5eff5;color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><div style="display:inline-block;width:100%;padding:20px"><div style="color:#15212a;font-size:15px;line-height:1.5em;font-weight:600">Medical lab scientists in Ireland demand parity in wages and recruitment : Peoples Dispatch</div><div style="display:-webkit-box;overflow-y:hidden;margin-top:12px;max-height:40px;color:#738a94;font-size:13px;line-height:1.5em;font-weight:400">Adhering to the request of the Labor Court, the Medical Laboratory Scientists Association (MLSA) has agreed to continue talks with the authorities and the employers to negotiate 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