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The United Nations General Assembly Hall in New York, photographed on April 23, 2011. (File photo)Basil D Soufi / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)
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U.N. Adopts Pandemic Declaration 153 to 3 as the United States Votes No — and Africa Pushes for Its Own Vaccine Factories

The U.N. General Assembly adopted a pandemic-preparedness declaration 153-3, with the U.S., Israel and Argentina opposed. Rwanda co-facilitated the talks; the text backs local vaccine and medicine manufacturing.