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Pandemic treaty must ensure timely access to technology and know-how
Transfer of Technology: New definition and stronger language needed
Getting to a meaningful agreement: ML&P’s opening statement to the 12th round of pandemic accord negotiations
The Africa Group emphasizes that a new WHO pandemic agreement must be founded on equity
The WHO Pandemic Treaty Negotiations Resume This Week: The Group of Equity highlights priorities
Geneva Health Files April-June 2024 [The GHF WRAP]
Report of Global Health Law Committee to International Law Association Athens Conference, 25-28 June 2024
MSF responds to the outcomes of PPR negotiations at WHA77
Global health inequity persists in pandemic agreement talks, says AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF)
WHO Member States Score a Win on IHR and for Multilateralism, Bag More Time to Conclude Pandemic Agreement
WHO Member States Score a Win on IHR and for Multilateralism, Bag More Time to Conclude Pandemic Agreement
No Time to Gamble: Leaders Must Unite to Prevent Pandemics
Proposed legal nature of pandemic instrument risks health emergency regime fragmentation
Attempts to Discredit Communication from South African Presidency on Pandemic Agreement Negotiations, Creates Confusion At a Key Juncture
The Pandemic Agreement: A Bridge to Nowhere or North Star to Access and Global Health Security?
African Markers: Letter from the South African Presidency on the Negotiations for a Pandemic Agreement
Are pandemic treaty negotiations dividing the Africa group?
KEI Comments on the May 10,2024 INB Draft of the Pandemic Accord
Latest Pandemic Agreement Draft Shows Progress – And a Long Way to Go
Latest Pandemic Agreement Draft Shows Progress – And a Long Way to Go
Pandemic Agreement Talks On Borrowed Time, Fate of Amendments to International Health Regulations At Stake
Governments agree to continue their steady progress on proposed pandemic agreement
Decolonising global health: why the new Pandemic Agreement should have included the principle of subsidiarity
Rupture in Africa Group Muddies Waters, But Developing Countries are Fighting Back for Equity Considerations in Pathogen Access & Benefit Sharing
As Consensus on Pandemic Agreement by Deadline Looks Impossible, What Are the Options?
Pressure from European countries related to the use of TRIPS Flexibilities
The Contested Space of Intellectual Property Rules in a Pandemic Agreement: Terms of Technology Transfer & the Unease with the Peace Clause [INB9]
One Health: A Bargaining Chip in the Pandemic Agreement Negotiations?
A Turning Point? The EU & the U.S. Draw Out Four African Countries to Bridge Positions on Pathogen Access & Benefit Sharing
WHO: INB Bureau Co-Chair attempts to shut down Africa Group’s benefit sharing proposals
The Depth of The Divide: Reluctance to Link Pathogen Access to Benefit-Sharing. An Approaching Tipping Point in the Negotiations as Countries Stick to Their Positions
‘Get it Done’ or Don’t Block Consensus, Tedros Urges Pandemic Agreement Negotiators
The Depth of The Divide: Reluctance to Link Pathogen Access to Benefit-Sharing. An Approaching Tipping Point in the Negotiations as Countries Stick to Their Positions
WHO: Pandemic instrument negotiations kicked off in three INB Working Groups
Friday’s Crucial Pandemic Agreement Stocktake Will Determine Direction of Talks
Pandemic Agreement Talks: The Final Toss - Access & Benefits Sharing Vs One Health? Health Financing Politics Come into Play as Africa Group Holds the Wild Card
WHO: Resumed INB negotiations in Working Group & informal discussion to push for consensus
WHO: Resumed INB negotiations in Working Group & informal discussion to push for consensus
Countdown to consensus: will the Pandemic Treaty deliver global health equity?
WHO: Resumed pandemic instrument negotiations to start amidst concerns on negotiation process
Final Pandemic Agreement Talks Start Amid Gamble on Process and African Show of Unity
A Pandemic Instrument that Does Not Deliver on Equity is a Failure
Open Letter to the Director General of the World Health Organization
The last mile: A few suggestions for the WHO Pandemic Agreement’s last two weeks of talks
The WHO Intergovernmental Negotiating Body process and the revised draft of the WHO Pandemic Agreement (A/INB/9R/3)
Proposal for a new Article 11 bis in the WHO Pandemic Accord: a Pandemic Technology Transfer Mechanism
Proposal for a new Article 11bis in the WHO Pandemic Accord: a Pandemic Technology Transfer Mechanism
A few comments on April 16, 2024 draft of the Pandemic agreement ,
Pressure Builds On Countries To Embrace Weak Pandemic Agreement, Operationalizing Equity at Risk with a Framework Approach
Next Draft of The Pandemic Agreement Will Likely Have No Fund and No Binding Obligations On Pathogen Access & Benefits Sharing, Defers Modalities to Conference of Parties
World Health Assembly is Likely to See Basic ‘Consensus’ Pandemic Agreement as Hard Decisions are Deferred
WHO: Vice-chair proposes May 2026 deadline to conclude PABS negotiations; ignores developing country proposals
WHO pandemic treaty talks falter as India, West clash over tech transfers
A Robust PABS System: Make or Break for the Pandemic Accord
The WHO pandemic treaty: The Peace Clause and its discontents
WHO: Member States to hold another pandemic instrument negotiations round amidst wide divergence
Pandemic Agreement: MSF statement on revised draft of negotiating text
INB9: KEI written statement
Where is the Binding International Treaty Negotiated at the WHO Against Future Pandemics Going?
It is not too late to solve the know-how problem in the WHO Pandemic Accord
The Pandemic Treaty: shameful and unjust
The WTO Failed the World in Covid Pandemic-related technology and intellectual property cannot remain in its authority.
On the Brink of Legitimizing Inequity: Negotiations at WHO for a Pandemic Instrument & Amending the IHR
How Should the WHO Pandemic Treaty Negotiations Tackle Intellectual Property?
WHO: Attempts to side-line Africa and Equity Group proposal on the PABS System
Will Countries Begin Text-Based Negotiations for a Pandemic Agreement Next Week: The What, How and Why Not
EXCLUSIVE: Read Latest Pandemic Agreement Draft Ahead of Monday’s Negotiations
EXCLUSIVE: Read Latest Pandemic Agreement Draft Ahead of Monday’s Negotiations
Biden’s got pharma’s back in global pandemic treaty negotiations
Poland Urges WHO Pandemic Accord Delay Amid Geopolitical Strife at Board Meeting
Public Interest Groups Submit Comments to HHS on WHO Pandemic Accord
TRIPS Waiver Decision for Equitable Access to Medical Countermeasures in the Pandemic: COVID-19 Diagnostics and Therapeutics
‘Lies’ and Entrenched Positions Undermine WHO Pandemic Negotiations
Five Things We Need to See in the Pandemic Accord
The European Union’s ABS Proposal for the pandemic instrument: Backwards in International Solidarity & Excerbates Inequity
WHO Pandemic Accord: The Final Stretch Begins
TRIPS Waiver Decision for Equitable Access to Medical Countermeasures in the Pandemic: COVID-19 Diagnostics and Therapeutics
IHR and Pandemic Treaty negotiations
Compromises on pandemic treaty
Pandemic Treaty Talks Hobbled
Country Statements: INB7
The Pandemic Accord Needs Clear Commitments on Adequate & Fair Financing for Prevention Preparedness and Response
WHO: INB Bureau proposes unbalanced draft negotiating text; no concrete deliverables on equity
Draft Pandemic Agreement Text Does Not Bite the Bullet, Suggests Subsequent Protocols To Defer Commitments on Key Issues
To Break Impasse In Pandemic Accord Negotiations, Bring Neutral Countries To Forge Compromise
The Architecture for Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness, & Response (PPPR): Views from Civil Society Leaders on the UN High Level Meetings
Some Countries May Push For More Time To Conclude Negotiations For The Pandemic Accord; First Draft Likely By Mid-October
Will 'Access & Benefits Sharing' Goals Trump Diluting Intellectual Property Provisions in Global Health Negotiations?
Are The Three Pandemic Negotiations Bringing a Safer World Closer?
Are The Three Pandemic Negotiations Bringing a Safer World Closer?
Joint newsletter of the INB and WGIHR Bureaux (#1/2023)
“Some aspects of IHR amendments linked to, dependent on, where the INB process finishes. Need for us to remain in step until May 2024”: WG-IHR Co-Chairs Asiri & Bloomfield
Decisive Discussions on Definition, Declaration of a Pandemic; Developed Countries’ Push to Park Access to Countermeasures in the INB?
"It can’t be that a WHO Accord is silent on equity": INB Co-Chairs Matsoso & Driece
Contradictions: The ‘Worst Outcome’ of Pandemic Accord and International Health Regulation Negotiations
Lining Up Realistic Solutions if the ‘Holy Grail’ of the Pandemic Accord Fails
WHO: Pandemic instrument meeting started with no clarity on the negotiating text
WHO Chief Slams ‘Vested Interests’ That Are Peddling Pandemic Accord Misinformation
Assessing the State of Play in the WHO Pandemic Instrument Negotiations
Pandemic Accord Negotiations Inch Towards First Draft With Co-Chair Urging Substance Over Speed
WHO: No consensus to initiate textual negotiations on pandemic instrument
Negotiating body co-chair skeptical about pandemic treaty timeline
Negotiating body co-chair skeptical about pandemic treaty timeline
WHO: No consensus to initiate textual negotiations on pandemic instrument
Countries Take a Stab At Difficult Provisions in Bureau's Text This Week: Pandemic Accord Discussions
Salud por Derecho’s statement on the new text of the Pandemic Treaty
Pandemic Accord Negotiations: ‘It’s Not Easy’
Building Effective Coalitions for the Pandemic Accord: Insights from the Negotiations of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
Opinion: Fighting epidemics takes equitable medical countermeasures
WHO: INB Bureau proposes comments on pandemic instrument text, not textual proposals
Africa Decries Weakening of Equity Provisions in New Pandemic Accord Draft
Proposals to waive intellectual property rights for pandemic response products in the World Health Organization pandemic accord need Australia's support
Exclusive: Updated Pandemic Accord Draft Sees Watered Down Text on Publicly-Funded R&D; Pathogen Access and ‘Benefit Sharing’ Linkage Remain
Tight Deadline to Respond to ‘Zero Draft’ of UN Political Declaration on Pandemics Ahead of September Meeting
Human Rights Challenges in the Pandemic Treaty Negotiations [Guest Essay]
Thematic Text Comparison: Zero draft of the WHO CA+ for the consideration of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body at its fourth meeting and the Draft Bureau’s text of the WHO CA+ for the consideration of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body at its six
India in strong position to develop medical countermeasures for equitable drugs, vaccine distribution: WHO official
June 2023 – July 2023: WHO intensifies negotiations on the pandemic treaty and the amendments to the International Health Regulations
EXCLUSIVE: WHO Medical Countermeasures Platform Takes Route from New York to Geneva
Bureau’s Text: Weaker Language on Public Funding Disclosures, Intellectual Property Waivers, but Leaves Door Open For Pooling of Tech, Recognition of Differentiated Responsibilities & Debt Relief
Covid-19: WHO treaty on future pandemics is being watered down, warn health leaders
Bureau’s Text: Weaker Language on Public Funding Disclosures, Intellectual Property Waivers, but Leaves Door Open For Pooling of Tech, Recognition of Differentiated Responsibilities & Debt Relief
Never Again – Until Next Time? Push to Pandemic-Proof the World as Political Will Wanes
Exclusive: Updated Pandemic Accord Draft Sees Watered Down Text on Publicly-Funded R&D; Pathogen Access and ‘Benefit Sharing’ Linkage Remain
Rich countries should play bigger role in combating pandemics -WHO draft
How countries are throwing away their best chance to prevent the next pandemic
Pandemic Accord Negotiations: Away from Public Glare, but Center of Attention
WHO: Zero Draft of the pandemic instrument creates an “illusion” of equity
Zero draft of the WHO CA+ for the consideration of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body at its fourth meeting
Pandemics start and end in communities: Why civil society participation in the governance of the Pandemic Accord is critical
Measures to ensure that the Pandemic Treaty serves the purpose of protecting all people, especially including those in low-income countries with limited financial resources and fragile health care systems
G2H2 Report on Financial Justice for Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response (November 2022)
Mainstreaming Equity in the International Health Regulations and Future WHO Legal Instruments on Pandemic Preparedness and Response
Countries Take a Stab At Difficult Provisions in Bureau's Text This Week: Pandemic Accord Discussions
Politics of Pandemic Agreement- A Beginners Guide
The Pandemic Accord: A pivotal opportunity to build resilient health systems and realise children’s right to health
Intergovernmental Negotiating Body
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