{"id":47361,"date":"2022-08-16T21:01:45","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T19:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pharma-trend.com\/en\/ahf-whos-monkeypox-name-game-is-mistimed\/"},"modified":"2022-08-16T21:01:45","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T19:01:45","slug":"ahf-whos-monkeypox-name-game-is-mistimed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pharma-trend.com\/en\/ahf-whos-monkeypox-name-game-is-mistimed\/","title":{"rendered":"AHF: WHO\u2019s Monkeypox Name Game is Mistimed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–AIDS Healthcare Foundation today called on the World Health Organization (WHO) to prioritize implementing proven public health measures to curb the global spread of monkeypox, instead of devoting time and energy to changing the name<\/a> that was given to the virus in 1958.\n<\/p>\n

\n\u201cWHO says monkeypox must be renamed because it may be perceived as derogatory, but sadly that doesn\u2019t change the fact that this disease was of little concern to the global health establishment in Geneva until people in wealthy countries started getting infected in large numbers \u2013 a pattern we have seen before with HIV, Ebola, and COVID-19,\u201d said AHF President Michael Weinstein. \u201cThis begs the question, if actions speak louder than words, is WHO\u2019s referendum on the name \u2018monkeypox\u2019 nothing more than a token gesture? We need to bring back the basics of public health – education, prevention, training, treatment, and research.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\nHomophobia<\/a> has been far more damaging to public health efforts to combat monkeypox than the name scientists assigned to the virus decades ago\u2014quite logically\u2014because it was first observed in monkeys. The virus has disproportionately affected gay and bisexual men, which has given countries and public health authorities in many jurisdictions cover to ignore the outbreak for far too long, either out of negligence or unwillingness to acknowledge that their populations have men who have sex with men. WHO itself waited 10 weeks to declare monkeypox a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC), and even then it was deadlocked on the decision<\/a> until Director-General Tedros intervened.\n<\/p>\n

\nIf WHO is serious about decolonizing public health, it would do well to step out of the Geneva bubble and speak out on issues of pervasive systemic racism and discrimination with respect to how the world handles outbreaks, which are of greater immediate consequence in terms of saving lives and preventing illness and suffering than names of viruses. The time to debate scientific and social merits of renaming diseases like monkeypox, chickenpox, bird flu, swine flu, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), West Nile Virus, yellow fever, and others to avoid stigma associated with animals, regions, ethnicity, colors, and so on, will come, but there are more pressing needs at hand.\n<\/p>\n

\nAIDS Healthcare Foundation<\/b> (AHF) is a global non-profit organization providing cutting-edge medicine and advocacy to over 1.6 million people in 45 countries worldwide in the US, Africa, Latin America\/Caribbean, the Asia\/Pacific Region and Europe. We are currently the largest non-profit provider of HIV\/AIDS medical care in the world. To learn more about AHF, please visit our website: www.aidshealth.org<\/a>, find us on Facebook: www.facebook.com\/aidshealth<\/a> and follow us on Twitter: @aidshealthcare<\/a> and Instagram: @aidshealthcare<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

Contacts<\/b> <\/p>\n

\nUS MEDIA CONTACT:
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Ged Kenslea<\/b>, <\/b>Senior Director, Communications, AHF
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+1.323.308.1833 work +1.323.791.5526 mobile
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gedk@aidshealth.org<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nDenys Nazarov, <\/b>Director of Global Policy &
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Communications, AHF
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+1 323.308.1829
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denys.nazarov@ahf.org<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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