<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">From: <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:prundall@babymilkaction.org">prundall@babymilkaction.org</a>></span><br></div><br><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><h1 style="border:0px;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:36px;font-size:30px;font-weight:normal;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px 0px 18px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Berlin World Health Forum –  how corporations frame health as a ‘choice’</h1><p style="border:0px;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:24px;font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 15px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(102,102,102)">The 14th World Health Summit will be taking place in Berlin from 16-18 October with around 5,000 participants and speakers, including a large range of corporations and their front groups with the main theme: – “<span style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-style:italic;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Making the Choice for Health”.</span>   The Summit will  illustrate how private sector interests have captured public and multilateral institutions – and how terms such as inclusion, transparency, innovation, opportunity  are now being used to defend and strengthen the commercial practices that subvert and undermine health.</p><p style="border:0px;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:24px;font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 15px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><b style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">For those who will be  in Berlin we would encourage a very different event:  the H<a href="https://www.babymilkaction.org/tigers" style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(80,180,227);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">uman Rights Film Festival – showing Tigers</a> – the story of the Nestle  Whistleblower.</b></p><p style="border:0px;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:24px;font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 15px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(102,102,102)">We are concerned that for the first time WHO will be co-hosting this event and feel this raises several important questions from a democratic governance perspective. It also illustrates the  confusion that exists in WHO’s understanding of Conflict of Interest Terminology.   Although there are many <span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">at </span>WHO that refer to Conflicts of Interest in the context of infant and young child feeding – 8 WHA resolutions and many Guidelines  –  these are s<span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">e</span>t amongst many other  WHO texts  that are littered with ill-defined and inappropriate terminology that encourage  ‘partnerships’ with the private sector  referring to  ‘shared desirable outcomes’, ‘values’, ‘genuinely committing’, ‘mutually reinforcing’ and ‘<span> </span>common goals’   – terms that are ripe for exploitation by corporations and their front organisations who have no democratic accountability.  Indeed the only <span> </span>prohibition for engagement in WHO’s overarching Framework for Engagement with Non State Actors (FENSA) is with manufacturers of tobacco or arms.  Given the crises the world is facing, <span> </span>this muddled,  inconsistent and out of date approach is unacceptably risky.</p><p style="border:0px;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:24px;font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 15px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(102,102,102)">An example of the confusion caused by  WHO’s mixed messaging is the newly formed WHO Foundation.  News that the Foundation accepted  $2.2m (£1.97m; €2.26m) from Nestlé in 2021.  caused an internal furore at WHO.  The Foundation has now told the <a href="http://xn--https-nw3b//www.bmj.com/content/379/bmj.o2468" style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(80,180,227);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">British Medical Journa</a>l BMJ that as a result of this “feedback” it had redirected the money and has now strengthened its “gift acceptance policy” and In future, will receive contributions only from companies that do not compromise <span style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-style:italic;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">“WHO’s integrity, independence, credibility, and reputation.”</span></p><p style="border:0px;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:24px;font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 15px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(102,102,102)">Commenting on the move, Laurence Grummer-Strawn of WHO’s Department of Nutrition for Health and Development said that WHO was “very upset” on discovering the contribution and had demanded that the foundation return the money. <span style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-style:italic;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">“The WHO Foundation was established to be distinct from WHO, to give it more flexibility to receive funding from the private sector, to not be constrained by the same bureaucratic constraints that we have,”</span> he said. <span style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-style:italic;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">“When we found out about this, the WHO was very upset and said, ‘This can’t happen. You have to reverse this now.’ And we discovered we had no legal way of forcing [the foundation] to turn the money back or to change their policies.“Since then, we have had discussions to say we can’t legally force you, but you realise you are using the WHO name and you are doing something that is in violation of the World Health Assembly. And they said, OK, we won’t do that again. So we’ve corrected it, but we didn’t correct it fast enough that they were willing to turn the money back and say, ‘We made a big mistake.’ We’re left with this mark against us.”</span></p><p style="border:0px;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:24px;font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 15px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(102,102,102)">”<a href="https://www.bmj.com/content/379/bmj.o2468" target="_blank">https://www.bmj.com/content/379/bmj.o2468</a></p><p style="border:0px;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:24px;font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 15px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(102,102,102)">Its worth noting that in 2011, IBFAN, the People’s Health Movement,  Medicine sans Frontier  and Declaration de Berne successfully joined forces to stop the development of such Forums.</p><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 30px;outline:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 35px;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:square;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><li style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><div style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="http://info.babymilkaction.org/pressrelease/pressrelease17may11" style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(80,180,227);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Medecins Sans Frontiere and Declaration de Berne join the call to stop the World Health Forum</a></span></div><div style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">17 May, 2011</span></div></li><li style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><div style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="http://info.babymilkaction.org/pressrelease/pressrelease16may11" style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(80,180,227);text-decoration:none" targ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e here <a href="https://www.conference.worldhealthsummit.org/" style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(80,180,227);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">https://www.conference.worldhealthsummit.org/</a></p><h2 style="border:0px;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:34px;font-size:28px;font-weight:normal;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px 0px 18px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">The main partners of the WHS below.</b></h2><p style="border:0px;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:24px;font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 15px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><b style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Strategic</b></p><p style="border:0px;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:24px;font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 15px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(102,102,102)">Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, CEPI, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, ENI Foundation</p><p style="border:0px;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:24px;font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 15px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(102,102,102)">German Federal Ministry of Health, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Roche, Sanofi, Siemens Healthineers, Wellcome Trust, YouTube Health</p><p style="border:0px;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:24px;font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 15px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><b style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Major</b></p><p style="border:0px;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:24px;font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 15px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(102,102,102)">Bayer, Berlin Senate for Economics, Energy and Public Enterprises, European Commission, European Investment Bank</p><p style="border:0px;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:24px;font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 15px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(102,102,102)">German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development, Robert Bosch Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation</p><p style="border:0px;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:24px;font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 15px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><b style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">General</b></p><p style="border:0px;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:24px;font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 15px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(102,102,102)">Abbott, Boehringer Ingelheim, Fondation Botnar, German Federal Ministry of Education and Research Max Planck Society</p><p style="border:0px;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:24px;font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 15px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><a href="https://jpn01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldhealthsummit.org%2Fnewsletter-10%2F2022.html&data=05%7C01%7Cmccoy%40unu.edu%7C0364da848874406ec87708daad26825a%7Cb9fc8add5f9141cca6c8f00214e01d4b%7C0%7C0%7C638012679099312392%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=lAZZhkhE3L029hOBtuhPpdUW%2FYvXLWGchTaIWQw0h6E%3D&reserved=0" style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(80,180,227);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">https://www.worldhealthsummit.org/newsletter-10/2022.html</a></p><h2 style="border:0px;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:34px;font-size:28px;font-weight:normal;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px 0px 18px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Some useful presentations and materials on multi-stakeholderism</h2><p style="border:0px;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:24px;font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 15px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><a href="https://www.babymilkaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/CONFLICTS-OF-INTEREST-UNDUE-INFLUENCE-ASSOCIATED-WITH-THE-BABY-FOOD-INDUSTRY-Repository-2.pdf" style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(80,180,227);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Compilation of COI materials relating to the baby food industry </a></p><p style="border:0px;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:24px;font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 15px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><a href="https://twitter.com/ronin19217435/status/1580660491751665664?s=20&t=PJpMMfNtIdZrAK6arVQHew" style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(80,180,227);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Vandana Shive interviewed about Bill Gates</a></p><p style="border:0px;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:24px;font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 15px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><a href="https://www.babymilkaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/2021.15.2.21.Australia-MSH-world.pdf" style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(80,180,227);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">2021.15.2.21.Australia MSH world</a></p><p style="border:0px;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:24px;font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 15px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><a href="https://www.babymilkaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IBFAN-Africa-16.11.21-2.pdf" style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(80,180,227);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">IBFAN Africa 16.11.21</a></p><p style="border:0px;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:24px;font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 15px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><a href="https://www.babymilkaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/2021.30.6.21.-N4G-GBC.pdf" style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(80,180,227);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">2021.30.6.21. N4G-GBC</a></p><div><br></div></div>

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