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Podcast: In Focus by The Hindu
Episode: 77th World Health Assembly: What’s standing in the way of a Pandemic Agreement?
Description: The World Health Assembly (WHA) is the forum through which the 194 member-states of the World Health Organisation (WHO) discuss and decide on policy matters.Every year, the WHA meets for a week in May. This year’s session, the 77th World Health Assembly, started May 27 and will conclude on June 1. There is a lot of interest in the WHA negotiations this year as the agenda items include an ambitious Pandemic Agreement, and amendments to the International Health Regulations.What progress has been made in the negotiations this year? What role can the World Health Assembly pl...