{"id":474092,"date":"2026-02-12T01:58:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T01:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/474092\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T01:58:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T01:58:19","slug":"time100-health-anne-claire-amprou-and-precious-matsoso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/474092\/","title":{"rendered":"TIME100 Health: Anne-Claire Amprou and Precious Matsoso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rich-text self-baseline font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mb-0 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\" data-testid=\"paragraph-content\">In May 2025 the World Health Organization\u2019s member states <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news\/item\/20-05-2025-world-health-assembly-adopts-historic-pandemic-agreement-to-make-the-world-more-equitable-and-safer-from-future-pandemics\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">adopted the first-ever global pandemic agreement<\/a>. The document lays the groundwork for worldwide collaboration in preventing and tackling future pandemics, in order to ensure quick manufacture and fair distribution of vaccines and treatments, among other goals. Co-chairs Precious Matsoso, former director-general of South Africa\u2019s department of health, and Anne-Claire Amprou, French ambassador for global health, guided the three years of negotiations, which were often contentious. \u201cOne of the most difficult things we had to do was to build trust\u201d between regions, says Matsoso. \u201cI kept on asking them\u2013look, we&#8217;re negotiating at a time where we&#8217;re no longer wearing masks and we&#8217;re no longer social distancing. If we&#8217;re in this room at a time when we&#8217;re wearing masks, would we come up with a different outcome?\u201d The next step is agreeing on an addendum that provides for quick information sharing about pathogens, which is <a href=\"https:\/\/healthpolicy-watch.news\/pandemic-agreement-on-hold-can-countries-bridge-the-divide-on-pathogen-access-and-benefit-sharing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">proving controversial<\/a> as high-income countries and middle- and low-income countries differ on how much they think should be made publicly available. Then, for the agreement to enter into effect, 60 countries will need to ratify it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In May 2025 the World Health Organization\u2019s member states adopted the first-ever global pandemic agreement. The document lays&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[77477,64,63,10967,137,500,77478,5275,77479,77480,241396],"class_list":{"0":"post-474092","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-accolades","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-franchise","12":"tag-health","13":"tag-healthcare","14":"tag-list","15":"tag-magazine","16":"tag-special-project","17":"tag-sponsorshipblock","18":"tag-time100-health-2026"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}