WHO Member States have held their first meeting of the Intergovernmental Working Group (IGWG) on the WHO Pandemic Agreement, formalizing next steps on implementing key provisions of the historic legal ...

The recognition came just weeks after the Seventy-eighth World Health Assembly approved the Agreement in May 2025, marking ...

WHO Member States have held their first meeting of the Intergovernmental Working Group (IGWG) on the WHO Pandemic Agreement, formalizing next steps on implementing key provisions of the historic legal ...

The aim of the meeting was to formalise next steps on implementing key provisions of the historic legal instrument to make the world safer from future pandemics, it said.

A draft pandemic treaty negotiated at the World Health Organisation (WHO) leaves health policy to national governments, ...

On May 20 at the 78th World Health Assembly (WHA78), member nations of the World Health Organization (WHO) formally adopted the first-ever WHO Pandemic Agreement.

Italy’s abstention from the WHO Pandemic Agreement raises concerns over national sovereignty and risks isolating the country from global health collaboration.

After three years of negotiations, delegates to the World Health Organization’s annual meeting have adopted a global pandemic agreement that threatens national sovereignty, requires the transfer ...

On March 20, members of the World Health Organization adopted the world's first pandemic agreement after three years of "intensive negotiations." The United States did not participate.

The Pandemic Agreement, just adopted by the World Health Organization (WHO), is a landmark for global public health. Had such an agreement been in place before 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic would have ...

Member States of the World Health Organization (WHO) have adopted the world’s first Pandemic Agreement, during the 78th World Health Assembly in Geneva, a process driven by lessons learned from ...

Member States of the World Health Organization (WHO) formally adopted by consensus the world's first Pandemic Agreement. The landmark decision by the 78th World Health Assembly culminates more than ...