Although the World Health Organization exists to provide "health for all," it has yet to do so. One member of the world community has been excluded from the organization: Taiwan.
This technologically advanced, democratic nation of 23 million people has for many years shown its love and care for people throughout the world by sending doctors and health experts abroad to help those in need and raise health standards in less-developed nations toward the high level enjoyed in Taiwan.
Even such advanced achievements in public health and health-research as Taiwan's, however, do not insure that anyplace in this increasingly globalized world can be safely excluded from the global disease-prevention network. When anyplace is excluded, the health of everyone everywhere is potentially affected.
Taiwan's modest request for observer status as a "health entity" in the WHO is well supported by precedents in the international community and within the WHO itself. The WHO granting observer status for Taiwan is the right thing to do morally, legally, practically, and for the sake of health for all.
Please explore this Web site to learn more about Taiwan's contributions to health and some of the broad international backing for Taiwan's WHO bid, and then support Taiwan for observer status in the WHO.
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