THE World Health Organization (WHO) held its 77th World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, this past week, and the highlight of the annual gathering of representatives of the WHO's 194 member countries was supposed to be the presentation of a draft pandemic treaty.
THE World Health Organization held its 77th World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, this past week, and the highlight of the annual gathering of representatives of the WHO's 194 member countries was supposed to be the presentation of a draft pandemic treaty. Work on the treaty, which was inspired by the global challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic, has been going on for about two years, but unfortunately, that was not enough time to create the draft by this week's deadline.
Finally, rich and poor countries have remained at loggerheads over the distribution of vaccines, with rich countries unwilling to share without the certainty of compensation. One particularly bad example of this attitude came from Great Britain, whose government publicly condemned a proposal that it be required to provide 20 percent of its vaccine production to developing countries.
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