Health Policy Watch
The thorny and unresolved issues of how to incorporate health equity measures and supportive finance for low and middle income countries into revisions of the WHO International Health Regulations (IHR), are set to be two key items on the agenda of an IHR negotiating body when talks resume again in early October.
This was one of the key messages at the close of the fourth meeting of the WHO Working Group on Amendments to the International Health Regulations, which concluded today after a week of discussions.
Although most negotiations took place behind closed doors, the meeting report that was discussed briefly in a public session on Friday provided a snippet of the talks so far and the envisioned way forward.