Accord aims to prevent repeated disconnection reactions and international chaos surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic.
Members of the World Health Organization (WHO) have passed an agreement aimed at improving preparations for future pandemics, but the lack of the United States has expressed doubts about the effectiveness of the treaty.
After three years of negotiations, the World Health Assembly in Geneva passed a legally binding agreement on Tuesday. Whose member states welcome their applause in the afterlife.
The purpose of the agreement is to prevent repeated isolation responses and international chaos that revolve around the COVID-19 pandemic by improving coordination, monitoring and access to drugs in the event of future pandemics.
"It's a historic day," said Chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus after the vote.
The text of the agreement was finalized after multiple rounds of tense negotiations last month.
"The world today is safer due to the leadership, cooperation and commitment of our member states to adopt historic pandemic agreements," Tedros said in a statement.
He added: "The agreement is a victory for public health, science and multilateral action. It will ensure that we can better protect the world from the threat of future pandemics. It is also the recognition of the international community that our citizens, society and economy must never make it easy for our citizens, society and economy to suffer again as the losses suffered during the 19th."
The agreement aims to better detect and combat the pandemic by focusing on greater international coordination and surveillance and equitable vaccines and treatments.
Negotiations became tense amid the disagreements between the rich and developing countries, whose feelings were isolated, thus being vaccinated during the 19th pandemic.
Dr. Esperance Luvindao, Minister of Health and Chairman of the Committee of Namibia, paved the way for adoption of the agreement.
"As a sovereign nation, we are determined to integrate it as a world, so we can protect our children, elders, frontline health workers, and all other pandemics," Luvindao added. "It's our duty and responsibility to humanity."
The United States has traditionally been the top donor to the WHO and is not part of the final stage of the deal process after the Trump administration announced in January that the U.S. would announce U.S. funds from the WHO and funding.
U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F Kennedy JR lashed out at the WHO for being "dying" during the annual conference.
"I urge the Global Health Minister and the WHO to evacuate us from the organization," he said in a video displayed at the conference in Geneva. "We have been in touch with like-minded countries and we encourage others to consider joining us."
Kennedy accuses who has not learned from the lessons of the pandemic.
"This is twice the pandemic protocol, and it will lock in all the dysfunctions of the WHO pandemic response. ... We won't be involved," he said.
Without the United States, the effectiveness of the treaty will be questioned, which puts billions of dollars inclined to ensure pharmaceutical companies quickly develop Covid-19 vaccines. If the state ignores it, the state will not face any punishment, which is a common problem in international law.
By May 2026, the state must phase out the details of the protocol’s pathogen acquisition and welfare sharing (PABS) mechanism.
The PABS mechanism involves access to pathogens with pandemic potential and then sharing the benefits gained from them, such as vaccines, testing and treatment.
After the PABS system is finalized, countries can approve the agreement. Once 60, the treaty will come into force.