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Sudan Events – Sumaya Sayed\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n The head of the World Health Organization has voiced fears Monday that countries will fail to strike a pandemic preparedness agreement by May, saying \u201cfuture generations may not forgive us.\u201d<\/p>\n Shaken by the COVID-19 pandemic, the WHO\u2019s 194 member states are negotiating an international accord aimed at ensuring countries are better equipped to deal with the next health catastrophe, or to prevent it altogether.<\/p>\n The plan was to seal the agreement at the 2024 annual meeting of the World Health Assembly, the WHO\u2019s decision-making body, which convenes on May 27.<\/p>\n At the opening of the WHO\u2019s executive board meeting in Geneva, Tedros reminded countries that world leaders at the UN General Assembly had agreed a commitment to resolve negotiations on the pandemic accord, and amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR), by May this year.<\/p>\n \u201cI must say I\u2019m concerned that member states may not meet that commitment. Time is very short.,\u201d Tedros said.<\/p>\n Failure to deliver the agreement would be \u201ca missed opportunity for which future generations may not forgive us,\u201d he said. \u201cIt will take courage and it will take compromise.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI urge all member states to work with urgency and purpose to reach consensus on a strong agreement that will help to protect our children and grandchildren from future pandemics.\u201d<\/p>\n WHO member states decided in December 2021 to launch the negotiating and drafting process for a new international instrument on pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response.<\/p>\n The accord would aim to ensure better global preparedness and a more equitable response for future pandemics.<\/p>\n Tedros declared an end to COVID-19 as an international public health emergency in May 2023.<\/p>\n The WHO\u2019s governance is split between director-general Tedros, the World Health Assembly and the executive board.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sudan Events – Sumaya Sayed\u00a0 The head of the World Health Organization has voiced fears Monday that countries will fail to strike a pandemic preparedness agreement by May, saying \u201cfuture generations may not forgive us.\u201d Shaken by the COVID-19 pandemic, the WHO\u2019s 194 member states are negotiating an international accord aimed at ensuring countries …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12179,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12177\/revisions\/12179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}