Geneva – The member countries of the World Health Organization approved on Tuesday an agreement to better prevent, prepare and respond to future pandemics following the devastation formulated by the coronavirus.
Supported applause echoed in a Geneva room organizing the WHO annual assembly as well as the measure – discussed and designed over three years – adopted without opposition.
The treaty guarantees that countries that share virus samples will receive tests, medicines and vaccines. Up to 20% of these products are given to WHO to ensure that the poorest countries have access to their access when the next pandemic is outings.
The director general of WHO Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyes presented the agreement as “historical” and a sign of multilateralism at a time when many countries put national interests before shared values and cooperation.
Dr. Esperance Luvindao, Minister of Health of Namibia and chairman of a committee that paved the way for the adoption on Tuesday, said that the 19 cocovan pandemic 19.
“We – like the sovereign states – have decided to join the hands, as a world together, so that we can protect our children, our elders, our front -line health workers and all the others from the next pandemic,” added Luvindao. “It is our duty and our responsibility towards humanity.”
The effectiveness of the treaty will face doubts because the United States – which has paid billions into rapid work of pharmaceutical companies to develop COVVI -19 vaccines – is seated aside, and because countries are confronted with any penalty if they do not know, a common problem in international law.
The United States, traditionally the best donor of the United Nations Health Agency, was not part of the final stages of the Agreement’s Administration process announced an American WHO withdrawal and the agency’s financing in January.
