The proposed WHO Pandemic Agreement: Ambitious progress or business as usual?
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https://doi.org/10.55016/ojs/jcph.v1i2.80000Keywords:
pandemic agreement, Covid-19, inequalities, governance, critical global healthAbstract
The World Health Organization (WHO)’s proposal for a Pandemic Agreement, released in April 2024, at first blush, seems laudable (WHO 2024a). The failure of governments to coordinate a response to COVID-19, as implored by the WHO and the United Nations (UN) at the beginning of the pandemic, underlines the urgent need for reform in the global governance of pandemics. This editorial considers: how has the Agreement progressed to date? And will it adequately prepare societies to tackle future pandemics?
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