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Failure of health diplomacy to communicate COVID-19: political, ethical, legal and medical perspective

Health diplomacy (HD) is an arising field that merges foreign affairs to medicine and law, with a focus on negotiations that impact the global policy environment for health. Successful health diplomacy relies on political and diplomatic experience and practice, which must be combined with public health knowledge and evidence-based medicine. It plays a vital role in sharing information which makes a difference to (un)successful communication. The HD core principle relies on the concept of bringing nations together in diplomatic missions to confront public health threats that all countries need to prepare for. The pandemic warning system from political administrations failed when SARS-CoV-2 unexpectedly hit the world, although lessons were to be learned from emergency preparedness and response to HIV and EBOLA. The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the vital importance of global solidarity to confront common public health warnings. Despite the expectations and responsibility of the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) in supporting countries to respond in a coordinated way and to bring together decisions aimed to jointly address the pandemic, it has an enormous global impact and has led to substantial misunderstanding worldwide.

health diplomacy ; covid

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