Member states of the World Health Organization voted overwhelmingly to adopt the first ever pandemic agreement, a treaty aimed at preventing, preparing for and responding to any future pandemic.

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

The adoption of the WHO Pandemic Agreement by the World Health Assembly on 20 May 2025 was a landmark ... The treaty establishes a legally binding framework for global cooperation—to ...

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.

LONDON — Five years after Covid-19 triggered national lockdowns, economic uncertainty and killed millions, the World Health Organization’s member countries agreed on a draft “pandemic treaty ...

World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus addresses the World Health Assembly in Geneva on May 19. After the pandemic treaty was approved, he said, "The world is safer ...

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. Listen ...

LONDON (AP) — Five years after COVID-19 triggered national lockdowns, economic uncertainty and killed millions, the World Health Organization's member countries agreed on a draft "pandemic ...

GENEVA (Reuters) -Members of the World Health Organization voted emphatically in favour of a potentially groundbreaking global treaty on improving pandemic preparedness at the World Health ...

The pandemic treaty is only the second health-specific treaty of its kind, the other being the World Health Organization (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, adopted 22 years ago.