World Health Organization member countries on Tuesday approved an agreement to better prevent, prepare for and respond to future pandemics in the wake of the devastation wrought by the coronavirus.

Accord aims to prevent repeat of disjointed response and international disarray that surrounded COVID-19 pandemic.

"The world is safer today thanks to the leadership, collaboration and commitment of our member states to adopt the historic WHO Pandemic Agreement," WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom ...

The Agreement is watered down with qualifiers, lacks enforcement mechanisms and specifies no penalties for failures to meet ...

Last month, after more than three years of intensive negotiations, member states of the World Health Organization (WHO) came together at the 78th World Health Assembly (WHA78) in Geneva, Switzerland, ...

GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization's member countries ... to them when the next pandemic hits. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has touted the agreement as “historic ...

Members of the World Health Organization adopted an agreement on Tuesday intended to improve preparedness for future ...

Surprised murmurs transformed into a prolonged standing ovation among delegates at the World Health Assembly on the evening of May 19, 2025, when they realised that no member state would oppose the ...

The Deputy Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (Caricom), Dr Armstrong Alexis, says the formal adoption of the ...

The first global agreement to make the world safer from future pandemics was adopted, in addition to an increase in financial ...

Health Minister, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, has praised the adoption of the Pandemic Agreement during the Health Working Group ...

May 20 (UPI) --The World Health Organization announced Tuesday it has officially adopted the first-ever "Pandemic Agreement" to prevent future pandemics. The member states voted 124-0 in favor of ...