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World Health Organization members vote in favour of global pandemic agreement

  • On May 20, 2025, WHO member states unanimously adopted a 33-page Pandemic Agreement at the Geneva headquarters to improve pandemic response.
  • The agreement emerged after over three years of negotiations triggered by COVID-19’s disruption and aims to address gaps in global preparedness and coordination.
  • It outlines principles for prevention, surveillance, equitable vaccine access, and includes a Pathogen Access and Benefit-Sharing mechanism to share virus samples and benefits.
  • WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called this an "historic" step that makes the world safer by fostering leadership, collaboration, and multilateral action.
  • Despite the agreement’s adoption, the United States, having withdrawn from WHO talks in line with earlier plans, poses challenges to its global effectiveness and enforcement.
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Ecns broke the news in China on Monday, May 19, 2025.
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