The Department of State and Department of Health and Human Services said in a statement they had transmitted on Friday the ...

The United States has rejected an agreement adopted by members of the World Health Organization to improve preparedness for ...

The United States officially won't be involved in an enhanced pandemic global response enacted by the World Health ...

On May 20th, 2025, in Geneva, the World Health Assembly, the decision-making body of the World Health Organization, adopted the first-ever WHO Pandemic Agreement, bringing to a close years ...

People who got infected with the virus also showed deficits in certain cognitive abilities, such as processing speed and ...

The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the inability of the current international health architecture, led by the World Health Organization (WHO), to detect and help nations to coordinate a response to ...

World Health Organization (WHO) member countries adopted a new treaty on May 20, 2025, to improve international coordination and cooperation on the prevention of, preparation for, and response to ...

“The WHO Pandemic Agreement is a rare opportunity to establish guard rails to prevent a Covid-19-like human rights catastrophe from happening again,” said Matt McConnell, economic justice and ...

Dr. Esperance Luvindao, Namibia’s health minister and the chair of a committee that paved the way for Tuesday’s adoption, said that the COVID-19 pandemic inflicted huge costs “on lives ...

A pandemic is a global outbreak of a serious new illness that requires “sustained transmission throughout the world." But the term is loosely defined.