{"id":26137,"date":"2025-04-16T21:57:51","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T21:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=26137"},"modified":"2025-04-16T22:25:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T22:25:18","slug":"who-member-countries-agree-to-pandemic-treaty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=26137","title":{"rendered":"WHO Member Countries Agree to Pandemic Treaty"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The World Health Organization finally reached a compromise on a pandemic treaty after three years of talks. The United States withdrew from negotiations after President Trump took office.<\/p>\n

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After three years of contentious negotiations, the member nations of the World Health Organization have agreed on a draft of a \u201cpandemic treaty\u201d designed to help the global community better prevent and respond to health crises.<\/p>\n

The agreement is aimed at averting the fractious, faltering response to the Covid-19 pandemic, which left many poor nations with limited access to vaccines and treatments. It would oblige wealthy nations to share key information on pathogens, and technology for interventions such as vaccines, with the rest of the world.<\/p>\n

The member states are expected to adopt the treaty, which will be legally binding, next month. The United States, which stopped participating in negotiations after President Trump announced plans to withdraw from the W.H.O., is not expected to ratify the treaty.<\/p>\n

The draft treaty is more limited in scope than the vision the W.H.O. first proposed during the throes of the Covid pandemic, but it is significant as the first major multilateral agreement in a world where the United States is no longer the unquestioned anchor.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cIt shows that with or without the U.S., the world can pull together for global health, and a recognition that pandemics require global solidarity,\u201d said Nina Schwalbe, a global health consultant who has held leadership roles in U.S. and international organizations and who followed the negotiations closely. \u201cThey pushed past their red lines and they got to agreement. That\u2019s no easy feat for 191 states. And there\u2019s a lot in there. It\u2019s maybe not as strong as we wanted on many issues, but there\u2019s lots to build on.\u201d<\/p>\n

In December 2021, the W.H.O. convened a group of negotiators to hammer out the terms of a new global agreement that it hoped would help countries respond more swiftly and effectively to future health threats.<\/p>\n

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The World Health Organization finally reached a compromise on a pandemic treaty after three years of talks. The United States withdrew from negotiations after President Trump took office.After three years of contentious negotiations, the member nations of the World Health Organization have agreed on a draft of a \u201cpandemic treaty\u201d designed to help the global community better prevent and respond to health crises.The agreement is aimed at averting the fractious, faltering response to the Covid-19 pandemic, which left many poor nations with limited access to vaccines and treatments. It would oblige wealthy nations to share key information on pathogens, and technology for interventions such as vaccines, with the rest of the world.The member states are expected to adopt the treaty, which will be legally binding, next month. The United States, which stopped participating in negotiations after President Trump announced plans to withdraw from the W.H.O., is not expected to ratify the treaty.The draft treaty is more limited in scope than the vision the W.H.O. first proposed during the throes of the Covid pandemic, but it is significant as the first major multilateral agreement in a world where the United States is no longer the unquestioned anchor.\u201cIt shows that with or without the U.S., the world can pull together for global health, and a recognition that pandemics require global solidarity,\u201d said Nina Schwalbe, a global health consultant who has held leadership roles in U.S. and international organizations and who followed the negotiations closely. \u201cThey pushed past their red lines and they got to agreement. That\u2019s no easy feat for 191 states. And there\u2019s a lot in there. It\u2019s maybe not as strong as we wanted on many issues, but there\u2019s lots to build on.\u201dIn December 2021, the W.H.O. convened a group of negotiators to hammer out the terms of a new global agreement that it hoped would help countries respond more swiftly and effectively to future health threats.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26139,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26137"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26140,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26137\/revisions\/26140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}