Action on World Health

Millions died around the world after China's preferred choice of WHO Director-General, Dr Tedros, told the world in January 2020 that there was no human-to-human transmission of COVID-19. Dr Tedros and the WHO have never been held to account, nor apologised for the role they played in the early days of the pandemic.

Thousands more also died during the 2014-16 Ebola outbreak in West Africa and the 2003 SARS outbreak in Far East Asia. As with COVID, the WHO acted slowly and incompetently to prevent the spread of these highly infectious diseases when it could have saved more lives.

The WHO wastes its budget (of almost US$ 7 billion for 2024-25), with the latest figures showing that taxpayers in the US, UK and EU bankroll over half of it. With no checks on how the WHO spends your money, it also takes 100s of millions of dollars from non-State actors who may seek to gain influence over the organization.

Bodily autonomy is a basic human right, yet the WHO keeps interfering in your lives and personal freedoms by forcing countries to adopt more and more restrictions and mandates on the food you eat, the alcohol and sodas you drink, the treatments you receive, as well as the vaping products that are designed to help smokers quit.

There are countless Treaties and Agreements which restrict the ability of countries to make decisions on vital health policies for themselves. The WHO imposes one-size-fits-all rules and directives that trample over national sovereignty and domestic policy, and these need to be repealed.

The "Pandemic Treaty", and amendments to International Health Regulations agreed at the 77th World Health Assembly in June 2024, will hand over unprecedented powers from countries to the WHO if they are not stopped. They would allow the WHO to dictate national public health policies and restrict fundamental freedoms in a future pandemic.