Sustained applause echoed in a Geneva hall hosting the WHO’s annual assembly as the measure — debated and devised over three years — passed without opposition.

As countries overwhelmingly passed a WHO global pandemic agreement, top U.S. health official Robert F. Kennedy Jr. invited ...

The WHO Pandemic Agreement, an accord designed to address the mistakes made in handling COVID-19, is being submitted for adoption Tuesday at the World Health Assembly. The annual decision-making ...

The Agreement is watered down with qualifiers, lacks enforcement mechanisms and specifies no penalties for failures to meet ...

The World Health Organization's member states on Tuesday adopted a landmark Pandemic Agreement on tackling future health crises, after more than three years of negotiations sparked by the shock of ...

Accord aims to prevent repeat of disjointed response and international disarray that surrounded COVID-19 pandemic.

Surprised murmurs transformed into a prolonged standing ovation among delegates at the World Health Assembly on the evening of May 19, 2025, when they realised that no member state would oppose the ...

Read about comments made by former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark and ICN president Dr Pamela Cipriano on pandemic ...

Following the formal adoption of the Pandemic Agreement by the World Health Assembly (WHA) in May 2025, the Caribbean ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) representative in South Africa, Dr. Shenaaz El-Halabi, says while the country has not ...