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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b>From:</b> 'Talin Avades' via IDA Programme Committee <<a href="mailto:ida-programme-committee@googlegroups.com">ida-programme-committee@googlegroups.com</a>><br>
<b>Date:</b> 3 April 2020 at 7:28:02 am GMT+12<br>
<b>To:</b> "<a href="mailto:crpd-forum@groups.io%20Group%20Moderators">crpd-forum@groups.io Group Moderators</a>" <<a href="mailto:crpd-forum@groups.io">crpd-forum@groups.io</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> <b>[IDA-Program-Cttee] Update 1: IDA's letter to World Health Organisation in response to the #COVID19 pandemic</b><br>
<b>Reply-To:</b> <a href="mailto:ida-programme-committee@googlegroups.com">ida-programme-committee@googlegroups.com</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear All,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Following on from <a href="https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http%3a%2f%2fwww.internationaldisabilityalliance.org%2fsites%2fdefault%2ffiles%2fida_letter_to_who_march_31_2020.pdf&c=E,1,-nAyW8S_qSGVSOo5lv4gv4DlqU0OUZvoa-u5SZu9x5wat-S2LO5USrTrgJXdAVsaJoQM1aZH5B4YM5PxrUICFwG54kc9NsChlsN0V55V5iIJABE32xe4Tud8vQo,&typo=1">
our letter</a> to the Director General of the World Health Organisation in response to the #COVID19 pandemic, we are writing to provide you with an update about the response from the WHO. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u>What happened?</u></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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On April 1, The International Disability Alliance issued an <a href="https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fbit.ly%2f3azjJzN&c=E,1,qpDtIfdA1fDMcXvP5ySPmrJmwz_UM4SeIBumCHTtaPED-pWFLW-eiaowx6YGNCf8MOC8JE_tGptDfujWnSbgsHHIMfCGhOzBE8lMfL282Umsd60Y&typo=1">
open letter</a> to the Director General of the World Health Organisation in response to the #COVID19 pandemic.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
The letter urged the World Health Organization (WHO) to: i) Take immediate action condemning any form of disability‐based or age‐based prioritisation in providing COVID‐19 medical care; ii) Encourage all governments to act immediately and to the maximum of
 their available resources to ensure that no person is denied access to COVID‐19 vital medical care as well as life‐saving equipment or medicine on the basis of age and/or disability; and iii) Deliver medical treatment triage decision‐making criteria in full
 compliance with the principles of humanity including equal dignity and non‐discrimination for all.<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u>What has been the response?</u></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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The Director General of the WHO, <a href="https://twitter.com/DrTedros">Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus</a> has <a href="https://twitter.com/DrTedros/status/1245435832175079424">issued the following Tweet yesterday</a>: "Thank you, @IDA_CRPD_Forum, for your urgent
 letter & strong collaboration with @WHO. #COVID19 poses a global threat & people with #disability must not be left behind in the response. All people need to be protected, regardless of whether or not they experience disability."<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2">
He continued by stating: "<a href="mailto:.@WHO %20joins%20@IDA_CRPD_Forum's%20call%20on%20governments%20to%20ensure%20that%20their%20#COVID19 response is inclusive of people with #disability, that they are not discriminated against in medical decision-making, and that their rights are protected.">.@WHO 
 joins @IDA_CRPD_Forum's call on governments to ensure that their #COVID19 response is inclusive of people with #disability, that they are not discriminated against in medical decision-making, and that their rights are protected.</a>" <o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2">
He also shared the <a href="https://www.who.int/who-documents-detail/disability-considerations-during-the-covid-19-outbreak">
WHO's Disability considerations during the COVID-19 outbreak</a>.<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u>What can I do?</u></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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IDA sees this as acknowledgement from the WHO to recognise that persons with disabilities should not be discriminated against in the COVID19 response, and as explicit condemnation against practices that discriminate. We encourage our partners to use this step
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You can <a href="https://twitter.com/DrTedros/status/1245435832175079424">access the tweet and its thread here</a> and share it with your networks. <o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">
Let us know if you have been using the letter in your advocacies and if you have accomplished impact with your National<br>
Ministries of Health! We will collate and use these as impact examples! You can let us know by email to
<a href="mailto:eyoussefian@ida-secretariat.org">eyoussefian@ida-secretariat.org</a>.<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, 1 Apr 2020 at 13:42, Talin Avades <<a href="mailto:tavades@ida-secretariat.org">tavades@ida-secretariat.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#999999">--For wide dissemination--</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1C1E21">The
<a href="https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http%3a%2f%2fwww.internationaldisabilityalliance.org%2fcontent%2fcovid-19-and-disability-movement&c=E,1,_Iun8Yt-t8_UTFR7aoR3av7XOqOa6RbQPXJPwcMOUmmtW8YPurX7sZQm50s0vE1eeU8tm3_0SjY_zdv7VHlXz3RLenCkMTIIvmAFigzimKpHdD_ZTGJH6js,&typo=1" target="_blank">
International Disability Alliance</a> has issued an open letter to the Director General of the World Health Organisation in response to the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/covid19?source=feed_text&epa=HASHTAG&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARBnFY5V9r2bjF7HuXewDGyeAdLdmbwTl-mcUaLgp0SBF2HAzdqayFuEc1VhlSRWiwzsyaFmirFVFmW7_WquaoyW98ojbvbAiWk0iHezzjB79CgVzqPca2bQTpJtxOOygSWe2oo1Z_uY34UqVcY7l4NmTZlH72Bgvlrt2FHluQFou-WU_WvPOrKYZekqxturBDESsYtQhdZzMiKJjc1kCgvsvvVVuMWKWDd5ULmPy2otyv5IlWOb_JXHL1kK8kacAzqLe9yQfo_FzcJIwYbqtDe-M1q4JWi8bAdRkMJ72zOKl5Ro10-G7T3-Vi-n8mPKu4ADmjC78tS1CHTtYY-x_uCn5Q&__tn__=%2ANK-R" target="_blank"><span style="color:#365899">#</span><span style="color:#385898">COVID19</span></a> pandemic.</span></b><span style="color:#1C1E21"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1C1E21">We are receiving information on discriminatory treatment of persons with disabilities when accessing emergency services. We are aware that criteria such as ‘dependency’ and ‘frailty’
 are used in several contexts to deny treatment, reflecting that the lives of persons with disabilities are less of a priority than others.</span><span style="color:#1C1E21"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1C1E21">The International Disability Alliance urges the World Health Organization (WHO) to:</span><span style="color:#1C1E21"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Take immediate action condemning any form of disability</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Cambria Math",serif">‐</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">based
 or age</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Cambria Math",serif">‐</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">based prioritisation in providing COVID</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Cambria Math",serif">‐</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">19
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Encourage all governments to act immediately and to the maximum of their available resources to ensure that no person is denied access to COVID</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Cambria Math",serif">‐</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">19
 vital medical care as well as life</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Cambria Math",serif">‐</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">saving equipment or medicine on the basis of age and/or disability;</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4">
<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Deliver medical treatment triage decision</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Cambria Math",serif">‐</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">making criteria
 in full compliance with the principles of humanity including equal dignity and non</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Cambria Math",serif">‐</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">discrimination for all."</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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 Please spread through your networks and share via social media on <a href="https://twitter.com/IDA_CRPD_Forum/status/1245047882539032579?s=20" target="_blank">
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