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11.30.20
By Cynthia Sun
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 30, 2020 Washington, DC — With the global AIDS response set to miss 2020 targets and COVID-19 threatening to derail progress, a new report today shows that many countries have not adopted key policies needed to take advantage of scientific breakthroughs in HIV. The science of HIV has never been better, […]
02.13.20
EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: Thursday, February 13, 2020; 23:30 UK / 6:30 pm ET CONTACT: Karen Teber / km463@georgetown.edu WASHINGTON – In an effort to control the COVID-19 outbreak (previously known as 2019-nCoV acute respiratory disease), China rapidly shut down a market in Wuhan suspected as the outbreak source and imposed unprecedented quarantines and cordon sanitaire […]
01.24.20
January 24, 2020 Lawrence O. Gostin, O’Neill Chair in Global Health Law, Georgetown University and Director, WHO Collaborating Center on National and Global Health Law Should the WHO Have Declared 2019-nCov a Public Health Emergency of International Concern? It was reasonable for WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to wait for more definitive information before declaring a […]
01.23.20
With: Lawrence Gostin By: Wired Link: https://www.wired.com/story/would-the-coronavirus-quarantine-of-wuhan-even-work/
01.23.20
With: Lawrence Gostin By: Buzzfeed News Link: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/danvergano/who-coronavirus-china-not-global-emergency
01.23.20
With: Lawrence Gostin By: Axios Link: https://www.axios.com/who-china-coronavirus-not-global-emergency-yet-69e9f3ea-28f1-4897-a98c-24e9d86b2762.html
01.23.20
With: Lawrence Gostin By: CNBC Link: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/22/who-postpones-decision-declaring-china-coronavirus-a-global-health-emergency.html
01.23.20
With: Lawrence Gostin By: CNBC Link: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/22/china-coronavirus-death-toll-in-chinas-hubei-reaches-17-state-tv.html
01.23.20
With: Lawrence Gostin By: BBC Newshour Link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_world_service (21:14)
01.23.20
MEDIA CONTACT: Karen Teber / km463@georgetown.edu FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WASHINGTON (January 23, 2020) – Today, World Health Organization Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, on the recommendation of the Emergency Committee, decided not to declare the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak that began in Wuhan, China, a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). Georgetown University global health security […]