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Injustice Served: China Blocks Taiwan from the W.H.O. Taiwan continues to be unfairly excluded from the World Health Organization. This video shows the (More) Taiwan continues to be unfairly excluded from the World Health Organization. This video shows the callous attitude of Chinese representatives to the WHO during the 2003 SARS crisis in which 73 Taiwanese citizens died. Here are some facts on Taiwan's bid to become and observer at the W.H.O.: The WHO's own Constitution calls for "the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health." Based on Articles 18 (h) and (m) of the WHO Constitution, the WHO's policy-setting body, World Health Assembly has broad authority to invite any entity it deems appropriate to participate in the WHA as an observer to promote universal participation and advance global health,. Taiwan has been a party to 5 of the 11 international sanitary agreements and regulations from which the W.H.O.'s International Health Regulations originated. Taiwan holds exclusive jurisdiction over the health matters for: - 23 million citizens (a larger population than those of 75% of the WHO's member states) - 80,000 international ships serviced in its ports each year - 27 million international passengers annually - 1.5 million controlled flights through its airspace Each week Taiwan operates 1,150 direct flights between it and the 5 Asian countries where most human cases of H5N1 bird flu have been reported Between 1995 and 2004, Taiwan donated over US$233 million in medical aid and provided humanitarian relief in 78 countries spanning five continents. Taiwan possesses one of the best public health systems in the world, rated second best behind Sweden by The Economist magazine. Taiwan was the first country in the world to offer its citizens universal health coverage. Daily average of people traveling between Taiwan and the PRC: 1,206 Daily average of people traveling between Taiwan and the U.S.: 1,626 Number of U.S. citizens in Taiwan: 170,000 In 2005 the WHO Secretariat signed a secret memorandum of understanding with the PRC requiring WHO authorities to receive PRC permission before aiding or inviting Taiwan to its meetings. Between 2005-May 2006, Taiwan was allowed to participate in only 14 of the 32 working-level technical meetings it applied to (a 44 percent success rate). Since then that number has dropped to nearly zero and the WHO has ceased to notify Taiwan of any forthcoming meetings. Please voice your support for Taiwan's bid today! (Less)
Let Taiwan join WHO! Taiwan has been excluded from the United Nations and its related organizations since1971. Since then (More) Taiwan has been excluded from the United Nations and its related organizations since1971. Since then Taiwan has neither been privy to the health related work of the World Health Organization (WHO) especially regarding the spread of infectious diseases. The recent spread of Avian bird flu is a serious concern where Taiwan is under major threat of an epidemic breakout.Taiwan needs to be able to comprehensively and effectively participate in the international public health network and collaborate closely with other nations, before we can safeguard the health and safety of every individual in every country around the world. Although our diplomatic allies and other countries friendly to Taiwan like the US and Japan have lent solid support to our bid in recent years,our efforts to join the WHO have yielded little success due to China's staunch oppression. In recent times, the US, Japan, and some European countries have strengthened their support of us even further, hoping that Taiwan may be granted "meaningful participation" in WHO-related activities and meetings before it obtains observer status in the WHA. However, according to the intelligence that we have collected recently, the memorandum of understanding that China and the WHO Secretariat signed in 2005 clearly states that, whenever Taiwan's medical or public health professionals want to join technical meetings or activities hosted by the WHO, they must send their applications to the WHO five weeks in advance. Upon receipt, the WHO is then to transfer these applications to China's Ministry of Health for approval. The MOU also stipulates that representatives from Taiwan can only participate in these WHO conferences or activities in the capacity of an individual, and that no Taiwanese officials senior to the director-general level are permitted to attend.What's more,the memorandum calls for all conference documents from the Taiwanese representatives to be referred to as from "China, Taiwan." The exposed MOU shows how China has managed to denigrate and suppress Taiwan in every possible way through political interference and maneuvering. This has left our endeavors to pursue "meaningful participation" in the WHO entirely meaningless. When the SARS epidemic struck Taiwan four years ago, the global disease prevention network's rejection of Taiwan's 23 million people had a devastating consequence--the loss of numerous precious lives. In the early stages of the epidemic, due to China's callous interference and protests, the WHO had delayed dispatching medical experts to Taiwan to provide much needed assistance until six weeks after the initial outbreak of SARS here. During that brutal battle against SARS in Taiwan, 346 people became infected, among whom 73 lost their lives. Disease prevention cannot allow any gaps and medical care heed no national border. SARS is an emerging infectious disease which no country has the capacity to deal with by itself. All nations must depend on cooperation under the aegis of the global disease prevention network to minimize the threat and damage from such an epidemic. The WHO was established precisely for this purpose. However, China's continued oppression has long excluded Taiwan from the WHO, turning Taiwan into the only gap in the global disease prevention network and exposing Taiwan's 23 million people to the constant threat of emerging epidemics. Its behavior is nothing less than unfair, inhuman, and unjust. Please help support Taiwan to join WHO! "The objective of the World Health Organization shall be the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health."So reads Article 1 of the Constitution of the World Health Organization (WHO).Article 2 stipulates that the function of the WHO, in general, is "to take all necessary action to attain the objective of the Organization." And Article 3 states, "Membership in the Organization shall be open to all States." (Less)
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