World Health Organization leaders at a press briefing on COVID-19, held on March 6 at WHO headquarters in Geneva. Here's a look at its history, its mission and its role in the current crisis.
The United Nations World Health Organization reconvened its negotiations to establish a “Pandemic Treaty,” an agreement to “strengthen pandemic prevention, preparedness and response” and develop a one-world health system.
Member states gathered in Geneva, Switzerland a second time on Monday to negotiate the treaty and will conclude the meeting on July 22.
Article 4 of the draft outlines the treaty’s overarching “principles,” including “universal health coverage,” “equity,” “transparency,” “inclusiveness,” “gender equality” and “diversity.
The WHO Member States have assigned the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body to complete its draft of the Pandemic Treaty by August 2022.
Upon approval WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and any of his successors would have unrestricted authority to implement WHO regulations.
The treaty would provide “a framework for international cooperation and solidarity” and address issues like surveillance systems and responding to outbreaks, Ghebreyesus said when announcing the treaty during a March press conference. “The world cannot afford to wait until the pandemic is over to start planning for the next one.”
In July 2020, former President Donald Trump formally withdrew the United States from the World Health Organization.
Immediately after taking office, Joe Biden reversed the decision and brought the US back into the WHO in one of his very first acts as president.
Then, in January 2022, Biden’s Health and Human Service Department secretly submitted proposed amendments, “Strengthen WHO preparedness for and response to health emergencies,” to the WHO to reform International Health Regulations of 2005, an existing health treaty.
The amendments delegate the international body of unelected bureaucrats more authority to define what constitutes a pandemic, when a pandemic is in progress, how long a pandemic lasts and how “to prevent, detect and respond to future public health emergencies of international concern,” ultimately delegating the WHO total authority over emergency operations in the U.S. during a “public health emergency.”
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