WHO Chief announces finally "an Ultimate vaccine against ALL Pandemics" . . .

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World Health Organisation director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the ultimate vaccine against future health threats was leadership at the G20 Summit. 

 

World Health Organisation director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said while vaccines would help end the Covid-19 pandemic, the ultimate vaccine against pandemics and all health threats was leadership.

 

In a statement at the G20 Summit in Rome, Ghebreyesus said, "Vaccines will help to end the pandemic, but the ultimate vaccine against pandemics and all health threats is leadership. The world needs your leadership, now more than ever."

The WHO director said the Covid-19 pandemic had underlined the centrality of health and why one must pursue Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with greater determination, innovation and collaboration.

"Even before Covid-19, the world was off-track for achieving the health-related targets in the SDGs. Now we are even further behind," he said.

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"Disruptions to essential health services have put at risk many of the gains we have made in routine childhood vaccination, malaria, tuberculosis, HIV, noncommunicable diseases, mental health, sexual and reproductive health, and more," he further said.

Tedros Ghebreyesus urged the nations to support WHO’s three strategic priorities, including strengthening national and global health security and primary healthcare.

"First, to address the underlying reasons that people get sick and die: poverty; racial and gender inequities; air pollution and climate change, and other social, economic and environmental determinants of health," he said.

"Second, to strengthen national and global health security, including through a treaty or agreement on pandemic preparedness and response. And third, to strengthen primary health care in every country, as the foundation for universal health coverage, and the first line of defence against outbreaks and diseases of all kinds," the WHO chief said.

G-20 leaders agreed during their two-day meeting in Rome on ending financing for new overseas coal plants but did not set a specific year for achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions.