美国拒绝了一项承诺开展国际协作以改善大流行病防范与预防的联合国不具约束力宣言，与欧盟一道对声明中的部分内容表示反对。美国疾病控制与预防中心（CDC）主任埃里卡·施瓦茨在周五联合国大流行病防范高级别会议上发表讲话时表示，美国对该文件存在意识形态方面的关切，并且尽管进行了谈判，“关键问题仍未解决”。施瓦茨说：“美国无法全面支持这一文本”，并指出“其中包含缺乏定义共识的分裂性意识形态”，以及“提及关于病原体获取和惠益分享的未完成谈判”。施瓦茨没有具体说明她指的是哪些意识形态，不过宣言草案呼吁将“性别平等主流化纳入所有政策和方案”作为优先事项，并确保“普遍获得性与生殖健康保健服务”，这可能被解读为包括堕胎。欧盟在一份声明中表示，该文件中有若干内容“代表明确的红线”，例如技术转让和国际融资义务。该文件不具法律约束力。虽然它呼吁国际协作，但并未就各国应如何防范和应对大流行病制定固定规则。去年，美国卫生与公众服务部（HHS）部长小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪拒绝了一项关于抗击慢性病和促进心理健康的联合国政治宣言，理由是该机构超越了其“应有角色”，并且该宣言提倡堕胎和“激进的性别意识形态”。在周五的讲话中，施瓦茨还敦促其他国家效仿美国的做法，禁止资助有争议的“功能获得”研究，本届政府已将此类研究列为危险行为。
The U.S. rejected a nonbinding United Nations declaration pledging international collaboration to improve pandemic preparedness and prevention, joining the European Union in objecting to the parts of the statement. Erica Schwartz, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in a speech Friday at a high-level United Nations meeting on pandemic preparedness said the U.S. had ideological concerns with the document and — despite negotiations — “critical issues remain unresolved.” “The United States is not in a position to support this text in full,” Schwartz said, citing “the inclusion of divisive ideologies that lack definitional consensus” as well as "references to an unfinished negotiation on pathogen access and benefit sharing.” Schwartz did not specify the ideologies she was referring to, though a draft of the declaration called for prioritizing “mainstream gender equality into all policies and programs” as well as ensuring “universal access to sexual and reproductive health care services,” which could have been construed to include abortion. The EU in a statement said there were several elements of the document that “represent explicit red lines,” such as technology transfer and international financing obligations. The document is not legally binding. While it called for international collaboration, there were no set rules for how countries should prepare and respond to pandemics. Last year, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. rejected a U.N. political declaration about combatting chronic disease and promoting mental health because the body was exceeding its “proper role” and the declaration promoted abortion and “radical gender ideology.” In her speech Friday, Schwartz also urged other countries to follow the U.S.’s lead and ban funding for controversial “gain-of-function" research, which the administration has labeled as dangerous. “We can advance scientific discovery and medical innovation, while protecting public health and national security, and we encourage all member states to join us in this key initiative,” Schwartz said. Last summer, the administration banned federal funding for any research that could make a pathogen more virulent; render vaccination against the pathogen ineffective; or make a pathogen easier to transmit to people, animals or plants. The administration has long blamed such research for the COVID-19 pandemic, asserting that a supercharged virus leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China.
“我们可以在推动科学发现和医学创新的同时，保护公共卫生和国家安全，我们鼓励所有成员国加入这一关键倡议，”施瓦茨说。去年夏天，该政府禁止为任何可能使病原体毒性更强、使针对该病原体的疫苗接种失效，或使病原体更容易传播给人类、动物或植物的研究提供联邦资金。该政府长期以来一直将新冠疫情归咎于此类研究，声称一种被增强的病毒从中国武汉的一个实验室泄漏。
The U.S. rejected a nonbinding United Nations declaration pledging international collaboration to improve pandemic preparedness and prevention, joining the European Union in objecting to the parts of the statement. Erica Schwartz, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in a speech Friday at a high-level United Nations meeting on pandemic preparedness said the U.S. had ideological concerns with the document and — despite negotiations — “critical issues remain unresolved.” “The United States is not in a position to support this text in full,” Schwartz said, citing “the inclusion of divisive ideologies that lack definitional consensus” as well as "references to an unfinished negotiation on pathogen access and benefit sharing.” Schwartz did not specify the ideologies she was referring to, though a draft of the declaration called for prioritizing “mainstream gender equality into all policies and programs” as well as ensuring “universal access to sexual and reproductive health care services,” which could have been construed to include abortion. The EU in a statement said there were several elements of the document that “represent explicit red lines,” such as technology transfer and international financing obligations. The document is not legally binding. While it called for international collaboration, there were no set rules for how countries should prepare and respond to pandemics. Last year, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. rejected a U.N. political declaration about combatting chronic disease and promoting mental health because the body was exceeding its “proper role” and the declaration promoted abortion and “radical gender ideology.” In her speech Friday, Schwartz also urged other countries to follow the U.S.’s lead and ban funding for controversial “gain-of-function" research, which the administration has labeled as dangerous. “We can advance scientific discovery and medical innovation, while protecting public health and national security, and we encourage all member states to join us in this key initiative,” Schwartz said. Last summer, the administration banned federal funding for any research that could make a pathogen more virulent; render vaccination against the pathogen ineffective; or make a pathogen easier to transmit to people, animals or plants. The administration has long blamed such research for the COVID-19 pandemic, asserting that a supercharged virus leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China.