World Health Organization member states adopted the WHO Pandemic Agreement on Tuesday, after more than three years of negotiations.
The adoption follows a committee meeting, where the majority of WHO member states voted in favor of adopting the treaty in a meeting in Geneva that stretched late into the evening on Monday.
In a vote called for by Slovakia at the 78th World Health Assembly, 124 countries voted in favor of the resolution to adopt the long-awaited pandemic treaty — a sweeping effort to fix the global failures exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Jenny Lei Ravelo@JennyLeiRavelo
Jenny Lei Ravelo is a Devex Senior Reporter based in Manila. She covers global health, with a particular focus on the World Health Organization, and other development and humanitarian aid trends in Asia Pacific. Prior to Devex, she wrote for ABS-CBN, one of the largest broadcasting networks in the Philippines, and was a copy editor for various international scientific journals. She received her journalism degree from the University of Santo Tomas.
