Why WHO’s pandemic prevention draft agreement takes a nature-centric, One Health approach (commentary)

The Pandemic Agreement: Symbolic Consolidation of a New Pandemic Industry ⋆ Brownstone Institute

The Pandemic Agreement: Symbolic Consolidation of a New Pandemic Industry by REPPARE at Brownstone Institute After three years of negotiation, the delegates of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) agreed on the text of the Pandemic Agreement, which now goes for vote at the 78th World Health Assembly (WHA) at the end of May 2025. This text comes after the negotiations were extended for an additional year due to ongoing disagreements about…

Why WHO’s pandemic prevention draft agreement takes a nature-centric, One Health approach (commentary)

At 4 a.m. CET on April 16, 2025, in Geneva, after years of negotiation and a final day of intense deliberation, the World Health Organization’s Intergovernmental Negotiating Body reached consensus on a Draft Pandemic Agreement. This historic agreement lays the groundwork for how the world will prevent, prepare for, and respond to future pandemics. More than just a document, the agreement represents a global commitment to multilateralism and coll…

Commentary on the WHO’s Draft Pandemic Agreement: Pointless Verbiage

Background The draft Pandemic Agreement (PA) has been under development for three years by delegates of 194 Member States of the World Health Organization (WHO), the health agency of the United Nations instituted after the Second World War. The WHO has been pushing to negotiate a pandemic treaty or accord to better prepare the world for pandemic preparedness, prevention, and response, in parallel with a new set of amendments to the 2005 Internat…

Global pandemic accord to be adopted - Juta MedicalBrief

The pandemic treaty reached by World Health Organisation (WHO) member states in April and which took more than three years to negotiate will be presented to the World Health Assembly for adoption next week. The legally binding document, which aims to create a unified response to the next pandemic, is proof that nations can still stand together despite rising geopolitical tensions, said co-chair of the talks Precious Matsoso last week. In a plena…

After more than three years of negotiations, the World Health Organization (WHO) has finalized its draft anti-pandemic treaty.

Towards a Safer World: Historic Progress in Global Pandemic Governance

Madrid, 14 May 2025. The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the profound vulnerability of individuals and societies to global health emergencies. It revealed critical weaknesses in underfunded and overburdened public health systems, the fragility of supply chains for essential medical goods, North-South disparities in research and production capacities, the proliferation of misinformation, and the severe social consequences of mobility restrictions and l…