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

Rather than push for new WHO leadership, the Biden administration voted to allow Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus ...

Blog - The final Pathogen Access and Benefit-Sharing (PABS) negotiations must be the true test of global equity in health.

Members of the World Health Organization adopted an agreement on Tuesday intended to improve preparedness for future ...

The Deputy Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (Caricom), Dr Armstrong Alexis, says the formal adoption of the ...

Members of the World Health Organization have adopted an agreement intended to improve preparedness for future pandemics ...

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.

The world is facing daunting health challenges with the rise of zoonotic diseases—infections that are transmissible from ...

Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi says countries around the world must prove their commitment to equitable pandemic ...

GENEVA, May 19 (Reuters) - Slovakia's COVID-19 vaccine sceptic prime minister said on Monday that his country would challenge the adoption of a potentially groundbreaking global treaty on improving ...

The treaty’s formal approval at the annual meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO) came after some late-breaking tension on Monday, when Slovakia challenged the treaty’s adoption by calling for ...