Hormone therapy: short-term relief, long-term consequences

1806 www.thelancet.com Vol 385 May 9, 2015 bleak. The papers we publish this week aim to show why withdrawing from multilateralism would be the wrong response to Ebola. It is perfectly understandable why many nations view threats to their citizens and sovereignty as reasons to act alone, on the basis of a narrow concept of strengthened state security. But human beings have many affi liations and interests. We are not defi ned only as citizens of a single nationstate. To reach a fuller and richer understanding of health security, governments, development agencies, and health organisations might also argue that each of us has an affi liation to the larger world we inhabit—a global identity that demands global solutions through cooperation between nations. Global health security, we think, is an idea that presses the case in favour of a renaissance in multilateralism, not its demise.