2025-07-20 18:50
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2025-07-20 18:50
The administration of Donald Trump announced on Friday that the United States rejected the agreement adopted by the Member States of the World Health Organization (WHO), aimed at preparing for future pandems, including because it violates American sovereignty.
The WHO agreement aims to provide global access to drugs, therapy and vaccines in the case of future pandemia. According to the new rules, producers of drugs, vaccines and tests would have to spend at least 20 percent. of your production during Pandemia for the needs of WHO, which means providing access to developing countries.
In the official statement, the US Department of State and the Ministry of Health said that “these amendments threaten unjustified interference in our sovereign right to shape health policy.”
“We will put the Americans in all our activities and we will not tolerate any international policy that violates freedom of speech, privacy or personal freedoms of Americans,” wrote state secretary Marco Rubio and health minister Robert F. Kennedy Jr., known for his skepticism towards vaccines.
Even during the term of Joe Biden, representatives of Washington, despite participating in conversations on preparations for future pandemia in 2024, did not come to an agreement with WHO, because they demanded additional security on intellectual property rights related to American production vaccines.
Trump decided to withdraw the US from WHO in 2020 during his first term. The whole process, however, lasts 12 months and his successor in the White House, Joe Biden, canceled this decision in January 2021. After taking power for the second time, Trump signed an executive regulation regarding the re -statement of the USA with WHO in January (PAP)
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