Science writer David Quammen - who correctly predicted Covid-19 - says one particular virus, which is already present in the ...

Five years on from the COVID-19 pandemic, some of us are trying hard to forget all about mask mandates, quarantines, and ...

LONDON (AP) — Five years after COVID-19 triggered national lockdowns, economic uncertainty and killed millions, the World ...

The "next pandemic" is not "theoretical" but an "epidemiological certainty," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.

In December, 2021, all 194 Member States of WHO decided to establish the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) to draft and negotiate a convention, agreement, or other international instrument on ...

Global agreement on a pandemic preparedness plan came against all the odds. Now all parties must follow good intentions with ...

World Health Organization member states have reached consensus on a draft agreement that aims to strengthen global preparedness for future pandemics.

The US won’t be party to the global agreement that will allow for rapid sharing of pandemic-related information, pathogen ...

Its article nine requires governments to establish national policies setting access conditions in research and development agreements and to ensure that pandemic-related drugs, therapeutics and ...

The agreement comes five years after the outbreak of COVID-19, a pandemic that laid bare the vulnerabilities of international health systems. With the growing threat of infectious diseases such as ...

After 3 years of discussions, 194 member countries of the World Health Organisation have agreed to the text of a pandemic treaty designed to make the world safer from a future pandemic – but what ...