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Montevideo, June 6th 2025 - 08:52 UTC

Tag: Pandemic Agreement

  • Wednesday, May 21st 2025 - 07:59 UTC

    WHO overwhelmingly formally adopted the world’s first Pandemic Agreement

    Governments adopted the WHO Pandemic Agreement in a plenary session of the World Health Assembly, WHO’s peak decision-making body.

    Member States of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday formally adopted by consensus the world's first Pandemic Agreement. The landmark decision by the 78th World Health Assembly culminates more than three years of intensive negotiations launched by governments in response to the devastating impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, and driven by the goal of making the world safer from – and more equitable in response to – future pandemics.

  • Monday, May 27th 2024 - 19:18 UTC

    WHO Pandemic Agreement not achieved but Tedros still confident

    When there is a will there is a way, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said

    World leaders were urged Monday to keep working toward an unprecedented agreement among nations that would give the World Health Organization (WHO) a stronger voice in fighting the next pandemic. The announcements came after negotiators failed to produce a draft of the agreement by the May 24 deadline, although talks are still ongoing and some form of pact is said to be on the table.