Researchers and Advocates Push to Change the WHO Vision for Aging Research and Treatment

The World Health Organization (WHO) position on aging is, as noted a few months back, well-written, incoherent, bureaucratic garbage. In essence it is a call to do nothing meaningful to treat the causes of aging, produced by people distant from the research community, who disregard the last decade of work and current scientific views on aging and longevity. This is unfortunately par for the course for large governmental organizations of this nature. Some researchers and advocates, such as those involved with the International Longevity Alliance, are keen on using the WHO as a megaphone to amplify advocacy for the treatment of aging as a medical condition, however, and so have been working behind the scenes to try to make the WHO position statement less terrible. The World Health Organisation has revised its Draft Global Strategy and Action Plan on Aging and Health after the consultation with a delegation of experts as well as an extensive online survey. Here we report on the developments of the consultation where some members of our parent organization the International Longevity Alliance (ILA) attended and many of our organization participated in the online survey about aging. The Consultation meeting was organized at WHO headquarters in Geneva following the survey on October 28-30, which brought together all regional WHO offices, delegates from 75 member states and around 35 non governmental organizations. The delegations included a wide range of research institutions, reg...
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