On Tuesday, the World Health Assembly approved the international agreement on the prevention, preparedness and response to it, after 3 years of arduous negotiations.
“This agreement is a victory for public health, science and multilateral work,” said the general manager of the World Health Organization.
He acknowledged in statements to the French Press Agency, “Today is a big day … a historic day.”
The agreement aims to better alert to the upcoming fighters and enhance the ways to combat them, and comes in light of the collective failure in dealing with the Kofid-19 pandemic that claimed the lives of millions and undermined the global economy.
The agreement, from which the final version of April 16, provides for a more effective and effective global coordination mechanism for prevention, monitoring and response to any risks that may lead to a pace.
It also aims to ensure fairness in obtaining health products in the event of a pandemic. The poorest countries have complained since this issue during the Kofid-19, when wealthy countries monopolized vaccines and diagnostic examinations.
The agreement also enhances multi -sectors surveillance and the “one health” approach at the level of humans, animals and the environment.
It resides in particular a mechanism “to provide the causes of the disease and share benefits”, that would “allow very fast and methodological participation in the information about the emergence of causes of the disease that may lead to the outbreak of a pandemic,” according to the French Ambassador of Health Ann-Clair Ambro, who participated in managing negotiations on agreement on prevention, preparedness and response to them.
The microscopic details of the mechanism should still be negotiated, hoping to conclude negotiations in this regard by the next assembly in May 2026.
The decision on agreement was approved at a session on Monday evening for one of the association’s committees with 124 supporters. No country was voted against him, while countries such as Israel, Iran, Russia, Italy and Poland abstained from voting.
The negotiations to the final version of the text were arduous and on the verge of collapse, especially in light of the severe financial deductions facing the organization after the United States’s decision to withdraw from it and its reluctance to pay the subscriptions of the years 2024 and 2025.