{"id":8422,"date":"2025-04-16T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=8422"},"modified":"2025-04-16T03:32:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T07:32:34","slug":"who-member-states-agree-to-landmark-accord-on-future-pandemic-responses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/who-member-states-agree-to-landmark-accord-on-future-pandemic-responses\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO member states agree to landmark accord on future pandemic responses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Countries united under the World Health Organization on Wednesday agreed to a milestone accord on how to respond to future pandemics and avoid repeating the mistakes made during the Covid-19 crisis. The agreement comes despite US foreign aid cuts and possible tariffs on pharmaceuticals casting uncertainty over the talks.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Years of negotiations culminated early Wednesday with countries agreeing the text of a landmark accord on how to tackle future pandemics, aimed at avoiding a repeat of the mistakes made during the Covid-19 crisis.<\/p>\n<p>After more than three years of talks and one last marathon session, weary delegates at the World Health Organization\u2019s headquarters sealed the deal at around 2am (0000 GMT) Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTonight marks a significant milestone in our shared journey towards a safer world,\u201d WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe nations of the world made history in Geneva today.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>Countries united under the World Health Organization on Wednesday agreed to a milestone accord on how to respond to future pandemics and avoid repeating the mistakes made during the Covid-19 crisis. The agreement comes despite US foreign aid cuts and possible tariffs on pharmaceuticals casting uncertainty over the talks.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Years of negotiations culminated early Wednesday with countries agreeing the text of a landmark accord on how to tackle future pandemics, aimed at avoiding a repeat of the mistakes made during the Covid-19 crisis.<\/p>\n<p>After more than three years of talks and one last marathon session, weary delegates at the World Health Organization\u2019s headquarters sealed the deal at around 2am (0000 GMT) Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTonight marks a significant milestone in our shared journey towards a safer world,\u201d WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe nations of the world made history in Geneva today.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/who-member-states-agree-to-landmark-accord-on-future-pandemic-responses\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WHO member states agree to landmark accord on future pandemic responses<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1007,1009,18,1008,97,14,283],"class_list":["post-8422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-avian-flu","tag-bird-flu","tag-covid-19","tag-h5n1","tag-pandemic-response","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-world-health-organization","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8423,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8422\/revisions\/8423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}