An agreement on how to tackle future pandemics has been adopted by world leaders through the World Health Organisation (WHO), after years of painstaking negotiations.
The WHO Pandemic Agreement was passed with applause by delegates at the World Health Assembly (WHA) in Geneva. The US will not be part of the agreement, having withdrawn from the WHO after Donald Trump took office – but the deal has been celebrated as a “groundbreaking” treaty which for the first time sets out that medical developments funded by public money should be made equally available to everyone.
