As countries recently gathered in Geneva for the
fourth round of negotiations on the WHO proposed pandemic treaty or accord, close examination of
the current text by civil society experts has revealed significant gaps.
In what has been defined a historic consensus decision aimed at protecting the world from future infectious diseases crises, on 1st December 2021, the special session of the World Health Assembly agreed to kickstart a global process to draft and negotiate a convention, agreement or other international instrument to strengthen pandemic prevention, preparedness and response.