The director general of WHO, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, praised the commitment shown by the member states of the organization which, for almost two weeks of meetings, adopted historical measures to make the world safer and healthier.
Historical adoptions of First World Agreement to make the world more sure of future pandemics and Increase in financial support to the World Health Organization were the protruding points of Seventy-eighth World Health Assemblywhich took place from May 19 to 27. Immediately afterwards, the WHO board of directors met for two days until May 29, to approach the results of the health assembly, the reform of WHO governance and the appointment and appointment of regional administrators.
Dr. Tedros said that Member States have demonstrated their commitment to WHO and multilateral action to protect and promote public health. “WHO and many of our Member States and health partners face various challenges,” he said. “But the World Health Assembly sent a clear message: the countries want a fort who and have committed to working with whom to build a healthier, safer and fair world. They were strong votes of confidence in who at that critical moment. ”
Make the world more of the pandemics
“The adoption by the health assembly of the Pandemic Agreement on May 20 was a benchmark in the history of WHO and global health,” said Dr. Tedros. “Despite many obstacles, and faced with poor disinformation, WHO member states have succeeded in negotiating and adopting a legally binding agreement to make pandemics the world.”
The pandemic agreement defines a range of measures to prevent pandemics and strengthen the resilience of the health system, including by improving the rapid sharing of pathogens; Ensure equitable, fair and appropriate access to vaccines, diagnostics and therapies; And strengthen the technology transfer, financing and supply chains.
Dr. Tedros said that the adoption of the pandemic agreement was not the end of the trip, adding that the Member States must always negotiate the annex on access to pathogens and the sharing of advantages for adoption at a future health assembly. The next step would be for 60 countries to ratify the agreement, including the appendix, before it comes into force as an instrument of international law.
“But after looking at this process in the past three and a half years, I am convinced of two things,” said WHO Director General. “First, these Member States will finish the post by May of next year (2026), as they have committed to do; And secondly, that deception and distortion will continue. ”
In particular, Dr. Tedros said that even if he had been widely recognized that the pandemic agreement would not make national sovereignty, some districts will continue to repeat the false allegations.
“Allow me to be clear again: the pandemic agreement will not pour out national sovereignty, the period. And the pandemic agreement does not give powers, the end,” said Dr. Tedros. “Who is the work of making recommendations to governments, but what governments do with these recommendations depends entirely on them. Which is not even a party to the agreement. It is an agreement between sovereign nations, and it will be ratified and implemented by the sovereign nations who choose to do so.
Increased contributions evaluated
The other major result of the Assembly was the approval of the WHO program budget in 2026 and 27, including the following 20% increase in contributions evaluated, adding $ 90 million fully predictable and flexible WHO income each year. In 2022, the Member States agreed to gradually increase the contributions evaluated to 50% of our basic budget, against only 16% at the time. This increase is the cornerstone of the transformation of the WHO of its approach to sustainable financing by diversifying its donor base and receiving increased support from all its Member States towards the WHO’s budget and work program.
“This is another major step towards carrying out voluntary funds reserved for a handful of traditional donors,” said Dr. Tedros. “Who also organized a guarantee event in which Member States and philanthropic donors committed at least $ 210 million in additional financing at the WHO investment turn.”
In addition to these two major achievements, the Assembly of Health also celebrated several countries to eliminate diseases and eliminate trans industrial fats from their manufactured food supplies.
The WHO member states have also adopted several major resolutions, reflecting the vast mission and mandate of the WHO, including a new target to make in half the impacts on the health of air pollution by 2040; new nutrition targets in mothers and young children; to strengthen the regulation of digital marketing of preparation milk and baby food; And a new global strategy for traditional medicine.
Countries for the first time have also adopted resolutions on pulmonary health and kidney health, and for a unleaded future, and World Day of the Colleur of the Uterus and World Prematurity Day as official health campaigns. Digital health resolutions, Guinea’s disease disease, health funding, health and healthcare work, medical imaging, nursing and midwives, rare diseases, sensory disorders, skin diseases, social connections and more have also been adopted.