Politico November 4, 2024
WORLD VIEW
The election’s stakes are high for U.S. policy positions on global health, from pandemic preparedness to abortion rights to public health funding.
Carmen compared Vice President Kamala Harris’ and former President Donald Trump’s approaches to global health.
On the pandemic agreement:
The World Health Organization aims to complete negotiations on a pandemic deal that could oblige pharmaceutical companies, including U.S.-based ones, to share vaccines and drugs with the developing world. President Joe Biden has resisted firm commitments, but he’s stayed in the talks, and Harris figures to keep negotiating, too.
Trump will almost certainly pull U.S. diplomats out and may quit the WHO altogether, as he moved to do when he was president in 2020, accusing it of...
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