Researchers have found that 96% of global health conferences happen in high- or middle-income countries. Fewer than four in 10 attendees at these gatherings are from poorer nations that have the highest burden of disease.
The charity model [of international relations] no longer works. We need global multilateral partnerships, not global charities that are mostly controlled by men from the high-income countries of the world, who tell us who must live and who must die. It is wrong.
“One day we’ll have the conversation about why we are still in a pandemic, because institutional racism meant that when the director-general of the World Health Organization, a man from Ethiopia named, declared that we, the world, had a problem and presidents of high-income countries refused to believe him. Therefore, the rest of the world did not take this seriously.
“It’s time that our leadership says: “We are not having the conference for Aids in Canada; we’ll have these conferences in the Global South so that we can make decisions together. It is only when this world acts together as one that we’re going to have equity and justice and true health security for the entire planet. “
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