Governments must invest in preparedness for the future global contagion, the World Health Organization has suggested Read ...

As scientists, health professionals, and lawyers engaged in reducing pandemic spillover risks, we recognise the urgent need ...

A last round of talks aimed at securing a global consensus on tackling future pandemics got underway on Monday, without the ...

The "next pandemic" is not "theoretical" but an "epidemiological certainty," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.

The World Health Organization (WHO) is on the verge of adopting the world's first binding international agreement focused on pandemic prevention. This landmark development, schedule for potential ...

Speaking at the opening of the resumed Thirteenth Meeting of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body on the WHO Pandemic Agreement, he reiterated the dire consequences of the COVID-19 outbreak ...

In April at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, more than 190 countries will attempt to mount a final push to ...

A global agreement to strengthen pandemic prevention and responses, expected to be ready in May 2024, would cover issues such as sharing of data and genome sequences of emerging viruses, and of any ...

Further, with a pandemic treaty in development, there are reasons to believe that many countries and the WHO want to see a more equitable distribution of medical products for future pandemics.

L ast week, the World Health Organization (WHO) ran a two-day pandemic preparedness exercise dubbed Exercise Polaris. The ...

the deadline looms for finalizing a global pandemic preparedness treaty. The completion date for the treaty, which aims to address profound disparities in global health systems exposed by the COVID ...

People who don't trust scientists. Nations that don't trust each other. And a lab in a suitcase. These are some of the ways the world has changed – for worse and for better – in the wake of ...