How is WHO handling the crisis?
Audio 7:30 p.m.
By: Guillaume Naudin Follow
Stigma and punishment. This is what fell, in addition to the Covid-19 pandemic, on the World Health Organization. And it came from the United States, the WHO's largest financial contributor.
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US President Donald Trump has suspended his country's contribution, it is punishment and he has questioned the action of the organization based in Geneva and accusing him in particular of having followed a pro-Chinese line of concealment of the truth and having failed in your homework, that is the stigma. How is WHO handling the crisis? This is the question we are asking today.
Our guests :
Auriane Guilbaud , lecturer in political science, researcher at the Institute of European Studies at the University of Paris 8, author of Le retour des epidémies (La vie des Idées / Puf 2015, with Philippe Sansonetti)
Marie- Paule Kieny , virologist, former Assistant Director-General of the World Health Organization
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