GENEVA (AN) — Despite limited progress at their latest negotiating round, proponents of a global pandemic treaty could wrap up talks this year. That's according to World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus' prognosis on Friday as the 11th round concluded.
Tedros praised the WHO's Intergovernmental Negotiation Body for making headway toward a binding global agreement, though organizers had hoped to make more progress. The INB began holding talks among WHO's 194 member nations after the World Health Assembly set it up in Dec. 2021.
