Medical Xpress April 12, 2025
For more than three years, countries have been negotiating an international agreement on tackling future pandemics aimed to help avoid repeating the mistakes made during the COVID-19 crisis.
Here are the main points in the draft agreement, still under consideration by negotiators gathered at the World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva as a Friday night deadline looms.
Objective
The objective of the WHO Pandemic Agreement draft text is “strengthening pandemic prevention, preparedness and response”.
Following the glaring inequity and deficiencies exposed in the world’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, the draft agreement will be guided by the principles of equity, solidarity and transparency.
Respect for the sovereign rights of States—an issue widely questioned by conspiracy theories that have surrounded the...
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