Realizing their shared vulnerability to new diseases, countries mobilized to give the regulations a facelift. Like SARS, the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed gaps in this global health legal framework.

The week of talks at the World Health Organization's headquarters in Geneva opened Monday -- almost exactly three years to the day after countries decided, in the heat of the Covid-19 crisis, to ...

The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) is hereby transmitting the report of the third meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR) Emergency Committee (Committee) ...

namely the International Health Regulations 2005 (IHR 2005), global tobacco control, the Millennium Development Goals, and strengthening national health systems in developing countries ...

is hereby transmitting the report of the third meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR) Emergency Committee (Committee) regarding the upsurge of mpox 2024, held on Tuesday ...