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The Agreement is a victory for public health, science and multilateral action. It will ensure we, collectively, can better protect the world from future pandemic threats,
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO director general, said in a statement Tuesday The WHO has not even come to terms with its failures during covid, let alone made significant reforms,
We — as sovereign states — have resolved to join hands, as one world together, so we can protect our children, elders, frontline health workers and all others from the next pandemic,
Not only will that harm the health of us all, but it’s first of all the population of those who are taking a step back, in a way, who will be in real danger in the face of emerging pathogens that they wouldn’t see coming,
Macron told the assembly by video Like many legacy institutions, the WHO has become mired in bureaucratic bloat, entrenched paradigms, conflicts of interest and international power politics,
Kennedy said in a video statement Countries in Africa are rarely the starting point of these crises but always are on the front line and the victims of these crises that cross borders."
Angolan President Joao Lourenco, speaking for the African Union, told the assembly on Tuesday With this agreement we're better prepared for a pandemic than any generation in history,
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at the decision-making annual assembly in Geneva The pandemic has ended, but we still don't know how it started,
We really do see um this is as a big opportunity, ... but it's got to be implemented”.
I think a lot of this stuff has been watered down so the content is still there but it's not as strong an obligation,
The world is safer today thanks to the leadership, collaboration and commitment of our member states to adopt the historic WHO Pandemic Agreement,
Tedros said in a statement I urge the world’s health ministers and the WHO to take our withdrawal from the organisation as a wake-up call,
he said in a video shown at the meeting in Geneva It’s an historic day,
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said after the vote It has doubled down with the pandemic agreement, which will lock in all of the dysfunction of the WHO pandemic response. … We’re not going to participate in that,
I hope having an agreement like this will mean that the public feels a bit more protected, because countries are willing to work together. I hope they would feel there's more equity in how technology is shared, I hope people living in low- and middle-income countries will have a bit more faith in how the international system operates,
So much of the pharmaceutical industry research institutes are based in the United States, so you're not going to have a government that is supposedly encouraging them to collaborate on research and development … tech transfer and these many other issues,
The idea there is that it will be a place where member states will meet and, in a non-adversarial manner, assess implementation,
It will be very important to have rapid communication,
Daniela Manno, an epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told DW That in itself is an achievement,
Ayelet Berman, a global health law expert at the National University of Singapore, told DW It contains critical provisions, especially in research and development, that—if implemented—could shift the global pandemic response toward greater equity,
Michelle Childs, Policy Advocacy Director at Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative, told news agency Reuters
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