THE World Health Organization (WHO) signed an agreement with the agency participating countries, to the Coping of future pandemics after more than three years of negotiations. Understand the measures negotiated by the organization in the article below.
The legally binding pact aims to reinforce world defenses against new pathogens After the Covid-19 pandemic killed millions of people between 2020 and 2022.
The proposal describes measures to prevent future pandemics with global collaboration in outbreak responses.
The event is a global health advance. According to Celso Granato, infectologist and clinical director of the Fleury group, sanitary outbreaks are a certainty to happen.
“We do not know when even what will be urgent, but pandemic is a factor of historical event. Flu Pandemics have existed since the 16th century. Viruses have been in nature, animals. Global not warming also affects, because the rainfall and temperature regime changes and brings increased proliferation of insects and mosquitoes that transmit disease,” says the doctor to the doctor CNN.
Proposals within the text developed by the INB intergovernmental negotiation body, created in 2021 specifically aiming at the fight against pandemics, include:
- Establishing a pathogen access system and benefit sharing;
- Taking of concrete measures on pandemic prevention, including through a unique health approach;
- Construction of skilled places for geographically different research and development;
- Facilitation of technology transfer, knowledge, skills and experience related to the production of pandemic health products;
- Mobilization of a national and global emergency workforce in qualified, trained and multidisciplinary health;
- Creation of a coordination financial mechanism;
- Taking of concrete measures to strengthen the preparation, readiness and functions and resilience of the health system;
- Establishment of a global supply chain network and logistics.
“These factors make time to discover agents. With this it is possible to do diagnostic testing, vaccine, and I discovered proper drugs faster,” explains Celso Granato. The professional still reinforces the importance of the impact of propositions. “We need to have more laboratories in Brazil, diagnosed and research. So we are not so dependent on outside countries.”
WHO also aims at the autonomy of countries to address public health issues within their borders. Orientation also clarifies that states do not become required to take specific actions, such as prohibiting or accepting travelers, imposing vaccination mandates and therapeutic measures.
The proposal will be considered at the World Health Assembly policy meeting in May this year, WHO said in a press release.
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*With information from Reuters
This content was originally published in Understand Measures negotiated by WHO agreement on future pandemics on the CNN Brazil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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