By Emma Farge and Jennifer Rigby

London: The world is not ready for another crisis Health Crisis Like COVID-19a leading Global health expert has warned, as the countries make a last-ditch effort to move relations with each other forward. Pandemic Treaty There is a fear that the political environment for the agreement may deteriorate.

World Health Organization member states gathered in Geneva on Friday to consider how to continue negotiations for an agreement after a deadline passes this month.

“We only hope that … we don’t have to face a situation like this again in the next few months.” pandemic “This is a world that is still not prepared for a major crisis,” Muhammad Ali Pate, Nigeria’s health minister and a board member of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, told Reuters.

A major issue in the treaty are the following provisions Low and middle-income countries Have access to 20% of the tests, treatments and vaccines developed to fight the pandemic, either at no-profit cost or as a donation.

Ali Pate said the figure was pertinent to avoid a race for life-saving products as African countries were at the last line during Covid.

Other negotiators and observers said there was a sense of urgency in the treaty talks, particularly because elections in several key countries this year could bring to power right-wing governments that fear the treaty could threaten their sovereignty, which the World Health Organization denies and which a clause in the document protects against.

“This needs to be done now, otherwise things will get even worse as things move to the right,” one Western diplomat said.

(Reporting by Emma Farge and Jennifer Rigby; Editing by Nick Macfie)