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WHO “Pandemic Treaty” vs Amendments to Existing International Health Regulations

The COVID-19 pandemic has given the global community an "opportunity" to "justify" making drastic changes to international legislation to "prevent" a pandemic from ever happening again. The timeline below tracks two World Health Organisation's proposed pandemic legislative "responses", to the…
20 May 2022Posted inGlobalism, Pandemic-Response, Public Health

Negotiations start on WHO International “Pandemic Treaty”

On 3 March 2022, the EU Council adopted a decision to authorise the opening of negotiations for an international agreement on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response or "pandemic treaty". [1]  In November 2021  the WHO noted this is because the "global response to COVID-19 was a disorganized, inequitable disaster". The intergovernmental negotiating body (INB) formed in December 2021, tasked with drafting and negotiating this "international instrument", will deliver a progress report to the WHO's 76th World Health Assembly in 2023, with the aim to adopt the international legally binding instrument by 2024, providing the WHO unprecedented powers. [2, 3] This is the continuation of an "effort to make the WHO the centre of a One World Government" with their One Health agenda - WATCH But the United States believe a new "Pandemic Treaty" is too slow, so in January 18, 2022 they have proposed changes to the existing IHR which the WHO D-G sent to Member states on January 20, 2022, they want these amendments rushed through at the May 22, 2022 World Health Assembly. [4]

USAID launch EPT-2 disease threat response program

In November 2014, USAID launched their Emerging Pandemic Threats program 2 (EPT-2). EPT-2 is focused on mitigating the impact of novel “high consequence pathogens” that originate in animals with a goal of enabling early detection of new disease threats, effectively controlling those threats, enhancing national-level preparedness in advance of outbreaks, and ultimately reducing the risk of these diseases emerging by minimizing human behaviors and practices that trigger the “spill over and spread” of new pathogens. [1] EPT-2 has three overarching purposes: the prevention of new zoonotic disease emergence, the early detection of new threats when they do emerge,and their timely and effective response EPT2 consists of a suite of One Health Investments, PREDICT 2, One Health Workforce, and the Preparedness & Response, that contribute to each of these goals and are complemented by strategic investments in key partners including the CDC, U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, and the World Health Organization. "PREDICT, a project of USAID’s Emerging Pandemic Threats (EPT) program, was initiated in 2009 to strengthen global capacity for detection and discovery of zoonotic viruses with pandemic potential.  ...PREDICT is continuing to build platforms for disease surveillance and for identifying and monitoring pathogens that can be shared between animals..> READ MORE