It appears that the World Health Organization (WHO) is positioning itself to be calling the shots for addressing future health pandemics. This United Nations (UN) health agency is currently refining agreements for the 194 member countries to grant total power to WHO, overriding national and personal health preferences. Final legally binding documents will be voted on in May 2024 at the World Health Assembly in Switzerland.

Some of the key items you may want to track for the Pandemic Treaty and International Health Regulations (IHR) are:

Requirement for UN member countries to recognize WHO as the guidance and coordinating authority of international public health response during public health.
Requirement for UN member countries to give WHO binding powers to dictate health policy to member states for medical countermeasures to address a public health emergency.
If the United States continues to join with those UN member countries calling for the negotiations and drafts of the documents to remain closed to the public.
If there are penalties if a UN member country does not follow WHO dictates related to health policies.

ISSUE: Might I lose my personal health freedoms when the next pandemic arrives?

AHHA strives to maintain a neutral position and views knowledge as power. For those interested in this month’s Issue, the following articles have been selected so that you can begin to be aware of the possible threats to your future health freedoms. You are encouraged to delve deeper and expand your knowledge of this matter using these articles as a springboard.

From WHO:
International Health Regulations (IHR) (2005)
World Health Organization (WHO)

Article-by-Article Compilation of Proposed Amendments to the International Health Regulations (2005) submitted in accordance with decision WHA75(9) (2022)
World Health Organization (WHO)

Proposal for negotiating text of the WHO Pandemic Agreement (10/30/23)
World Health Organization (WHO)

Comments from other organizations:
Concerns About the WHO Pandemic Preparedness Treaty (10/10/23)
C-Fam  Center for Family & Human Rights

Health Freedom Threatened by WHO Power Grab (2/16/24)
Alliance for Natural Health

WHO ‘Pandemic Treaty’ Draft Reaffirms Nations’ Sovereignty to Dictate Health Policy (3/2/23)
by Catalina Jaramillo
FactCheck.org

Why the WHO Pandemic Treaty Threatens Freedom of Expression
by Giorgio Mazzoli
Real Clear Politics

WHO Pandemic Treaty Remains Fatally Flawed (2/5/24)
by Brett Schaefer and Steven Groves
The Heritage Foundation

WHO member states are negotiating a pandemic treaty. But will countries follow the new rules? (2/15/24)
by Elliot Hannon, Nina Schwalbe, Susanna Lehtimaki
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

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