US still wants global health cooperation, but not through WHO

There’s no official U.S. delegation at this year’s 78th World Health Assembly, but that hasn’t stopped the U.S. from throwing down punches on the World Health Organization at its own gathering.

In a video address on Tuesday shown at the WHA, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert Kennedy Jr. invited health ministers to join the United States in a “new era of cooperation.”

“We don’t have to suffer the limits of a moribund WHO. Let’s create new institutions or revisit existing institutions that are lean, efficient, transparent, and accountable,” Kennedy said.

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