WHO Pandemic Treaty Remains Fatally Flawed

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The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the inability of the current international health architecture, led by the World Health Organization (WHO), to detect and help nations to coordinate a response to such threats. In December 2021, the World Health Assembly (WHA) established an intergovernmental negotiating body (INB) World Health Organization, “Intergovernmental Negotiating Body,”(accessed January 24, 2024) to draft a “convention, agreement or other international instrumentunder the Constitution of the World Health Organization to strengthen pandemic prevention, preparedness and response.”

After many meetings and several drafts, the INB released its proposed negotiating text for the pandemic agreement that will serve as the basis for governments’ debates and amendments before the expected adoption at the May 2024 session of the WHA. Intergovernmental Negotiating Body, ---More...