South African Shabnam Mohamed, who describes herself as a lawyer and journalist. I Kenyan doctor and religious leader Dr Wahome Ngare.
Ngare is chairperson of the African Sovereignty Coalition and a director of the rightwing Kenya Christian Professionals Forum. She took particular exception to the proposed pathogen access and benefit-sharing system. This aims to set up a global system where countries can share biological and genomic information about pathogens with the potential to cause pandemics and derive benefits for doing so, such as getting access to medicines and vaccines.
The ACDP is expressly opposed to Covid vaccines and supports the animal parasite medicine, Ivermectin, as a Covid treatment in its election manifesto prepared for the country’s national elections on 29 May.
“To counter this threat, we must redirect our focus inward, strengthening our local institutions, rallying behind the WHO’s global and regional efforts, and championing science.”Anti-science dis- and misinformation has become a global movement. “Giving special status to the Center for Reproductive Rights will further fuel the culture wars undermining the WHO’s mission to tackle health issues. It confirms fears that the WHO’s new accord on pandemic preparedness will be used to undermine national laws related to abortion,” claims the letter.
The next US administration must “return to treating international organisations as vehicles for promoting American interests — or take steps to extract itself from those organisations”, it adds.