One direction advocates pandemic response and vaccines, the other focuses on health promotion such as nutrition, sanitation, and economic development.
THE final draft of the WHO Pandemic Agreement is expected to be formalised at the World Health Assembly this week. This is when each member state can decide whether or not to sign the treaty.
Amidst the whirlwind of executive orders issued by incoming US President Donald Trump last week was the news that the US intends to withdraw from the World Health Organisation (WHO).
The organization desperately needs reform, as President Trump notes. Its current leadership, having spent the last few years blatantly misleading and lying to countries about Covid-19 and pandemic risk, seems an unlikely candidate to help. They have played the tune of private interests over the needs of the world’s people. However, the WHO’s structure makes it the only major international health institution that countries alone can actually force to reform.
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