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cord-319998-dkk2motm	Ho, Jing-Mao	Unequal discourses: Problems of the current model of world health development	2020-09-09		.txt	text/plain	2483	121	49	In contrast to the praise of China's efforts of containing COVID-19, the WHO's narrative of the West African nations affected by EVD highlighted their poverty, political instability, and cultural traditions. Rather, we wish to highlight that the WHO's positive narrative of China's role in the current pandemic and the negative narrative of the capacity of West African nations to contain EVD created a partial (in both senses of the term) picture of the respective health crises. The dramatic differences in the WHO's discourses on COVID-19 and EVD remind us that the world is not only divided by health disparities but also by the power plays of international politics. The WHO's unbalanced emphasis on different practices and ''traits" of member states allows us to see that it is not immune to taking on the biases found in international politics and as a consequence has failed to uphold the principles of egalitarianism and neutrality in global health governance upon which it is founded.	./cache/cord-319998-dkk2motm.txt	./txt/cord-319998-dkk2motm.txt