The World Health Organization announces a preliminary agreement on combating future epidemics

The World Health Organization has announced that the 196 countries in international health regulations have been in effect since 2007 to respond to emergencies in public health around the world, on Saturday to improve the effectiveness of these regulations to the Corona virus pandemic crisis. In a statement, the organization announced that “the (parties) countries have given their initial approval to an important and innovative set of amendments to international health regulations.” “It’s a historical event,” said Tedros Adhanum Gybrysus, general manager of the organization. International health regulations organize the declaration of a state of a healthy emergency that raises international concern, which is the highest level of warning for the World Health Organization, and to include specific measures in ports and airports as well as at the border crossings to reduce the spread of risk. The review of international health regulations must improve the capabilities of countries to detect health crises that can take an international dimension, respond to them and take into account the concept of the pandemic in a better way, while emphasizing the principles of “fairness and solidarity”. After the corona pandemic, several votes questioned the effectiveness of international health regulations, considering that it did not prevent the crisis and did not curtail it. Improving the response to epidemics and the process of reviewing the international health regulations launched in 2022, parallel to negotiations on setting up a global agreement on the prevention and control of epidemics. This Treaty Project aims to improve the coordination of the international response and address the thorny issue of fair access to vaccines, treatments and tracking instruments. It is scheduled that the negotiators of the International Health Regulations will end their work next week, and the amendments must be approved in Geneva during the World Health Meeting from May 27 to June 1, the date on which the UN organization also hopes to close the epidemics treaty. “The International Health Regulations are serving the world for about 20 years, but our group experience with the use of this important tool to emphasize many emergencies associated with public health, including the Corona, has emphasized the important areas in which it can be strengthened,” Gibriecos said. “The amendment of international health regulations reflects the urgent need to improve our collective defense against the current and future public health risks.” Earlier this month, Jibrisus urged the countries to agree to a future anti -epidemic agreement and say, “Give the people of the world, the people of your countries and the people you represent in the future.” He added, “I have one simple request … do it (complete the agreement) for them.” Last March, more than 50 heads of state, former government and dozens of other prominent figures launched an official and urgent appeal to the member states of the World Health Organization to reach an international agreement to prevent new reservations in the future. A year ago, member states of the World Health Organization began negotiating to reach an international agreement to ensure a better world that could avoid or respond in the future. The World Health Organization rely on the desired agreement to “make a qualitative shift in global health security” and to “be” in recognition that our destinations overlap. ‘