This article was originally published by Rhoda Wilson at The Expose.
US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Argentine Minister of Health Mario Lugones signed a joint declaration to reaffirm their countries’ withdrawals from the WHO and build a new global health cooperation model. The new system aims to be based on scientific integrity, transparency, sovereignty, and accountability, and will be free from totalitarian impulses, corruption, and political control.
The US Health and Human Services Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and his Argentine counterpart, Minister of Health Mario Lugones, have signed a joint declaration reaffirming their countries’ withdrawals from the World Health Organisation (“WHO”) and announcing plans to create an alternative international health system.
The new system aims to be grounded in scientific integrity, transparency, sovereignty, and accountability, with Kennedy and Lugones stating that their withdrawal from WHO marks the beginning of a new path towards building a modern global health cooperation model.
During his visit to Buenos Aires, Argentina, Kennedy met with Lugones and Argentine President Javier Milei to discuss key health priorities – including healthcare reform, addressing chronic disease, and their new global health collaboration – to define a joint work agenda that will strengthen transparency and trust in the health system.
Lugones expressed his shared vision with Kennedy, stating that they believe in the future of collaboration in global health and have similar visions about the path forward, with the declaration expressing a shared vision of the challenges facing the region’s health systems and the measures needed to transform them.
The decision to pull the US out of the WHO was declared by President Donald Trump in January. The following month, Argentine President Javier Milei announced his country would also be withdrawing from the WHO. The Argentine government justified its departure in a statement earlier this week, saying that WHO’s prescriptions do not work because they are not based on science but on political interests and bureaucratic structures.
Related: Argentina withdraws from the WHO
Last week, Kennedy addressed the 78th World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, explaining why the Trump Administration was withdrawing from WHO and encouraging other countries to do likewise, citing the organisation’s compromised state due to China, gender ideology and Big Pharma, as well as its failure to maintain transparency and fair governance.
WHO’s handling of the COVID pandemic was a major factor in the decision for the US to withdraw, with Kennedy criticising the organisation’s suppression of reports on human-to-human transmission and its promotion of the fiction that COVID originated from bats or pangolins rather than from a Chinese government-sponsored bio research laboratory in Wuhan.
The US and Argentina’s withdrawal from the WHO and creation of an alternative international health system is seen as a significant step towards building a new health paradigm, with Lugones stating that they are going to deepen cooperation between countries, including in trade, and follow a path based on scientific evidence, transparency, and sovereignty.
The alternative international health system aims to be based on gold-standard science and free from totalitarian impulses, corruption and political control, with Kennedy and Lugones committed to creating a modern model of global cooperation that prioritises health and health security over political agendas and corporate interests.
The above is paraphrased from the article ‘US and Argentina Announce Plan to Create Alternative Global Health System After Withdrawing From WHO’. Read the full article on American Greatness HERE.
Read the full article here