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Geneva (Vax-Before-Travel News) – “After more than three years of negotiations, World Health Organization (WHO) Member States recently took a significant step forward, making the world safer from pandemics by drafting an agreement for consideration at the upcoming World Health Assembly in May 2025.
Announced on April 16, 2025, this WHO proposal aims to strengthen global collaboration on prevention, preparedness, and response to disease pandemic threats.
Proposals within the text include establishing a pathogen access and benefit sharing system; taking concrete measures on pandemic prevention, including through a One Health approach; building geographically diverse research and development capacities; facilitating the transfer of technology and related knowledge, skills and expertise for the production of pandemic-related health products; mobilizing a skilled, trained and multidisciplinary national and global health emergency workforce; setting up a coordinating financial mechanism; taking concrete measures to strengthen preparedness, readiness and health system functions and resilience; and establishing a global supply chain and logistics network. ...”
SEE: Without the United States, WHO Member's Draft Pandemic Agreement — Vax-Before-Travel
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Published - April 20, 2025 - Fact checked - April 20, 2025
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