A High-Level Meeting on 'Complex-determination and an integral and collaborative response to the COVID-19 syndemic'

On 21 January 2022 the World Federation of Public Health Associations (WFPHA) sent a letter to the Executive Board of the World Health Organization (EB-WHO) on behalf of the Sustainable Health Equity Movement (SHEM).

The letter stresses the fact that

COVID-19 is more than a pandemic and is best characterized as a syndemic. The world suffers from the synergy of COVID-19 and other communicable and non- communicable diseases with political, economic, and environmental macro-processes that jointly cause deep changes that favor the emergence of zoonoses, and which reflect and generate social inequalities and inequities among and within countries. The construction of a “new normal”, better and fairer than the one that brought us here, requires facing all the dimensions of this complex reality, where the global unfair economic order must be faced and the right to development can be achieved by all nations and peoples.

It also suggests holding a High-Level Meeting on “Complex-determination and an integral and collaborative response to the COVID-19 syndemic”, on the occasion of the 77th
UNGA, in September 2022.

You can read the full Letter from the World Federation of Public Health Associations (WFPHA) on behalf of the Sustainable Health Equity Movement (SHEM) to the Executive Board of the World Health Organization (EB-WHO) here.