Members of the World Health Organization (WHO) have agreed the text of a legally binding treaty designed to better tackle ...

The World Health Organization's member countries agreed on a draft pandemic treaty that sets guidelines for how the ...

After more than three years of discussion, the World Health Organization’s Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) has ...

Members of the World Health Organization reached an agreement to prepare the world for future pandemics after more than three years of negotiations, the organization said early on Wednesday.

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

Despite an increase in infectious disease outbreaks, the United States has cut global aid funding, which is creating a huge ...

Although the agreement on the draft treaty has been hailed as groundbreaking and historic, several experts have said that it ...

COVID-19 was spreading rapidly in the U.S., and on March 11, after 118,000 cases and more than 4,000 deaths worldwide, the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic. Every aspect of life ...

Vaccines have saved more than 154 million lives worldwide over the past 50 years. World Immunization Week is a timely ...

LONDON — Five years after Covid-19 triggered national lockdowns, economic uncertainty and killed millions, the World Health Organization’s member countries agreed on a draft “pandemic ...

Outbreaks of infectious diseases, including measles, meningitis and yellow fever, have been increasing globally. Read more at ...

After the world’s largely disastrous response to the coronavirus, countries tasked the WHO with overseeing a pandemic treaty ... next month at the U.N. health agency's annual meeting in Geneva.