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PANDEMIC PREPAREDNESS TREATY
After US cuts funding, WHO chief defends USD 2.1B budget request by comparing it with cost of warWorld Health Organization faces financial challenges after funding cuts. The chief urges member countries to support its budget request. Th...20 May, 2025, 08.30 AM IST- Shared Covid information 'without holding anything back', says ChinaBeijing asserted its transparency in sharing Covid-19 information, countering WHO's call for more data. China claimed it has significantly ...31 Dec, 2024, 02.32 PM IST
- Pandemic accord talks at loggerheads as time ticks awayThe final round of negotiations for a pandemic accord faces intense pressure this week as countries grapple with differing approaches to ha...26 Mar, 2024, 12.39 AM IST
- Pandemic accord talks at loggerheads as time ticks awayThe last week of negotiations runs until Thursday with nations trying to hammer out an agreement to make sure the world is better prepared ...25 Mar, 2024, 08.42 AM IST
- India lacks openness in talks with WHO on many key policies: ActivistsOver 300 civil society and public health activists have expressed concerns in an open letter to the President of India about the lack of tr...10 Nov, 2023, 09.08 AM IST
- Threat of pandemics far from over: Minister Bharati Pawar at G20 meetUnion Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Bharati Pravin Pawar has said that the threat of pandemics is far from over and calle...04 Jun, 2023, 05.27 PM IST
- All countries 'dangerously unprepared' for future pandemics, says IFRCThe world is "dangerously unprepared" for future pandemics, the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)...30 Jan, 2023, 04.43 PM IST
- Three years into Covid, are we ready for the next pandemic?All the experts who spoke to AFP emphasised that for the next pandemic, regions such as Africa, South America, South Asia and the Middle Ea...16 Dec, 2022, 12.32 PM IST
- World in no better place to fight pandemics than before COVID: Review PanelA lack of progress on reforms such as World Health Organization funding and international health regulations means the world is as vulnerab...18 May, 2022, 04.46 PM IST
- World Health Organization calls for treaty to shield against next pandemicWHO member states reached a consensus Sunday on kick-starting the process towards a pandemic treaty. The draft decision was secured after c...29 Nov, 2021, 09.30 PM IST
- WHO Chief: Omicron shows need for global accord on pandemicsThe draft makes no reference to the word “treaty” but, among other things, calls for the creation of an “intergovernmental negotiating body...29 Nov, 2021, 05.24 PM IST
- WHO members eye pandemic preparation, as new variant emergesIn the wake of diplomatic wrangling, a draft resolution at the special World Health Assembly stops short of calling for work toward specifi...29 Nov, 2021, 03.53 PM IST
- Countries convene for pandemic treaty talksThe three-day meeting at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva comes with the planet still besieged by Covid-19, nearly two years o...27 Nov, 2021, 06.38 PM IST
- World must bolster WHO and agree pandemic treaty, expert panel saysEfforts to end the COVID-19 pandemic have been uneven and fragmented, marked by limited access to vaccines in low-income countries while th...22 Nov, 2021, 10.31 PM IST
- WHO chief expects collaboration of China, others on virus origins follow-upSpeaking at a Geneva-based event on trade and COVID-19, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that he hoped that the next ph...28 Sep, 2021, 05.55 PM IST
- WHO, at heart of world's sluggish response to COVID, faces potential shake-upUnder the resolution submitted by the European Union, and adopted by consensus, member states are to be firmly in the driver's seat of the ...31 May, 2021, 04.56 PM IST
- World leaders call for international pandemic treatyWorld Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and leaders, including Boris Johnson of Britain, Mario Draghi of Ital...30 Mar, 2021, 02.45 PM IST
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