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20 May 2020AmericasSarah Morgan

US rebukes IP wording in WHO’s pandemic resolution

The US has joined consensus on a  World Health Organization (WHO) resolution on the global handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, but disassociated itself from the IP and reproductive health services wording within the resolution.

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