"World Health" announces an agreement to confront future epidemics

The World Health Organization announced on Wednesday that member states have reached an agreement to prepare the world to confront future epidemics, following negotiations that lasted more than three years. This legally binding agreement aims to improve the world’s defense to address the causes of new diseases, after the “Corona virus” pandemic has claimed the lives of millions of people from 2020 to 2022. The proposal defines measures to prevent future epidemics, to improve global cooperation, and this includes the creation of a system to achieve pathogens, build share benefits, and to build different geographical research provisions. A global anti -epidemic agreement also proposes the agreement to create a global network of supply chains and logistics services, focusing on improving the elasticity and readiness of the health system. The World Health Organization said in a statement: “After intensive negotiations over more than three years, the member states have taken a big step forward in efforts to make the world safer than epidemics,” the World Health Organization said in a statement. The agreement is commonly seen as a victory for the international organization, at a time when multilateral organizations have suffered serious pressure as a result of sharp cuts in US foreign financing. The United States, which was slow to participate in the early talks, withdrew from the discussions this year, after US President Donald Trump issued an executive order last February with the withdrawal of Washington from the World Health Organization and Report. The organization announced that the proposal will be discussed at the World Health Society policy in May. “It is a historical moment and proves that countries, whether with or without the participation of the United States, are committed to working together and the power of pluralism,” says Nina Shawalbebei, Spark Street Advis, a global health research center. The treatment of the shortcomings while the World Health Organization already has binding rules on the obligations of countries when public health events can exceed the national borders, these rules have been found to be insufficient to confront a global pandemic. A large part of the motivation behind a new treaty of the desire to address the shortcomings that the current system has hampered in the ‘corona era’, such as inequality in the spread of vaccines between rich and low income countries, and to ensure the exchange of information and collaboration faster and more transparent. One of the most important items in the Treaty (Article 12) provides for the allocation of approximately 20% of the tests, treatments and vaccines for the World Health Organization to distribute it in the poorest countries in emergency situations. Earlier, the differences between rich and poor countries have hampered negotiations, except for the part of medicines and vaccines, financing is a major opinion, including the creation of a dedicated fund, or a way to take advantage of available resources, such as the World Bank Fund for the Prevention of EPides with a value of one billion dollars. The concern of some critics about the complexity of the negotiations caused, indicated that the agreement could undermine national sovereignty by granting it wide powers to a United Nations agency. The Director General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanum Jibrisus, denied these statements, saying that the agreement would help countries protect themselves from better epidemics.