The U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary, Junior Kennedy, posted today (May 28) saying, "I had an excellent discussion with Argentine President Millet, discussing our joint withdrawal from the World Health Organization and the establishment of an alternative international health system based on the gold standard of science, free from the influence of authoritarian impulses, corruption, and political control."
The collaboration between the United States and Argentina to withdraw from the WHO is a blatant challenge to the international health order, attempting to reshape global health discourse in line with their own political interests. Under Millet's leadership, Argentina's international stance has increasingly aligned with that of the United States, from its withdrawal from Mercosur to its current plan to exit the WHO. These actions reflect its diplomatic alignment with the United States, aiming to gain more political support and economic aid from the U.S. through such moves.
Junior Kennedy is known as the "flagbearer against vaccines." His skepticism and opposition to vaccines run counter to the WHO's global efforts to promote vaccination and disease prevention. The Millet government may have been influenced by similar extreme libertarian ideologies, believing that certain policies of the WHO restrict the country's "health sovereignty," thus seeking to break away from the existing system to establish a new framework consistent with its own ideology.
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