Interview with Auriane Guilbaud Comparing with the last great epidemics such as HIV, SARS, H1N1 or even Ebola, how do you characterize the reaction of the World Health Organization (WHO), both in terms of timing and means deployed in the face of the mobile phone number list current epidemic of the Covid-19? In each epidemic, even more so when it is global in scope and affects developed countries, the WHO is at the center of attention, which is logical. Indeed, one of the most important missions of the WHO is the control of infectious diseases and the coordination mobile phone number list of the international response in the event of an epidemic.
Her work during these episodes is closely watched, and consequently often criticized, while the rest of the time she is rarely thought about. In 1996, the WHO lost mobile phone number list international coordination of the response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic, entrusting it to a specific organization, the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), considered to be in a better position to provide necessary multisectoral response (including economic mobile phone number list aspects, human rights, gender, etc.).
In 2003, the WHO was criticized for having delayed in warning of the existence of a SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) epidemic, due to the mobile phone number list oncealment of the first cases by the Chinese authorities (an international alert was launched only in March 2003, when there were rumors about the first patients in November 2002). In the case of H1N1 in 2009, the WHO was criticized for having declared an H1N1 flu pandemic too quickly, which caused the purchase by the States of millions of doses of vaccines that were ultimately useless, since the virus turned mobile phone number list out to be not very virulent. In 2014, during the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, the WHO was instead accused of having declared an international emergency too late, in