After more than 3 years of intense negotiations, WHO member states have finally reached a consensus on a new treaty to ...

Global agreement on a pandemic preparedness plan came against all the odds. Now all parties must follow good intentions with ...

Perhaps the absence of Trump-governed US in the negotiations created an accommodative atmosphere, but the US’s decision to ...

Although the agreement on the draft treaty has been hailed as groundbreaking and historic, several experts have said that it ...

Members of the World Health Organization (WHO) have agreed the text of a legally binding treaty designed to better tackle ...

The United States’ decision not to join the World Health Organisation’s new pandemic treaty is “foolish”, Luke O’Neill has ...

Central to the treaty is the introduction of the Pathogen Access and Benefit-Sharing System (PABS). This innovative mechanism ...

The ongoing WHO negotiations represent a chance to reimagine global health governance based on solidarity, equity and the ...

Past pandemics have shown that failing to invest in sustainable health infrastructure can devastate healthcare systems, economies, and societies. Moreover, the reductions in global health programs and ...

Business interests and intellectual property laws privilege the wealthy and leave the rest scrabbling for life-saving ...

As the final draft of the 32 page pandemic accord1 lit up the giant screen at the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Geneva headquarters at 3 am on 16 April, the world’s health ministers and diplomats ...

The Pandemic Treaty is the second global public health treaty steered by WHO. The first was the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), adopted in 2003. I was a member of the Indian ...