Nightingale Hospital at the ExCel Centre in London. The UK should unashamedly promote universal health coverage around the world
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The great global challenges we face today of extreme poverty, inequality, the climate crisis, and of course Covid-19, can only be overcome by working together across borders to share knowledge, expertise and resources.
In responding to these issues, we must resist the pull of inward-looking politics and policies such as President Donald Trump’s announcement that the United States will end funding to the World Health Organisation during a global pandemic. Bowing to this rhetoric risks a scramble for resources that will undo decades of life-changing and life-saving progress across the global south.