At the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, 25 heads of government issued an extraordinary call for a new international treaty for preventing, preparing for, and responding to pandemics. For two years, ...

Brett Schaefer is the Jay Kingham senior research fellow in international regulatory affairs with The Heritage Foundation’s Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom. Read his research. If a “pandemic ...

“I’m overwhelmed, overjoyed!” These were the words of Precious Matsoso, co-chair of the World Health Organization (WHO) group tasked with negotiating the first global treaty on preventing and ...

An April 25 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) claims an international effort to prepare for future pandemics has ended. "BREAKING: The WHO has abandoned its contentious 'Pandemic Treaty' ...

A string of false and misleading online claims have emerged about the pandemic treaty, a landmark agreement which has just been agreed by more than 190 members of the World Health Organisation (WHO).

The adoption of the WHO Pandemic Agreement by the World Health Assembly on 20 May 2025 was a landmark moment in global health. It was the culmination of two major realizations by the international ...

GENEVA (AP) — A global treaty to fight pandemics like COVID is going to have to wait: After more than two years of negotiations, rich and poor countries have failed — for now — to come up with a plan ...

At the start of this month, it looked as though talks on a pandemic agreement — designed to prevent, prepare for and improve the world’s response to an event such as the global COVID-19 outbreak — ...

The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the fundamental inadequacies of the current international health architecture, led by the World Health Organization, to detect and help nations to coordinate a response ...

The COVID-19 pandemic is a global challenge. No single government or institution can address the threat of future pandemics alone. A convention, agreement or other international instrument is legally ...

If a “pandemic treaty” fails to account for the dismal international response to COVID-19 and isn’t focused on preventing future pandemics, is it really a “pandemic treaty”? Yet that’s the current ...

At the height of the COVID pandemic in March of 2021, 25 heads of government and international agencies issued an extraordinary joint call for a “new international treaty for pandemic preparedness and ...