WHO: Countries Extend Deadline for Completing Pandemic Deal

WHO: Countries extend deadline for completing pandemic deal

GENEVA — The World Health Organization said Saturday that talks towards completing the missing piece of a pandemic agreement designed to avoid the panic and chaos of Covid-19 had been extended. WHO member states have been at the UN health agency’s Geneva headquarters since Monday for what had been meant to be a final round of talks. They were trying to agree on how a key part of the text — the Pathogen Access and Benefit-Sharing (PABS) system — …

WHO Member States agree to extend negotiations on key annex to the Pandemic Agreement

WHO Member States have agreed to extend negotiations on the Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing (PABS) annex to the WHO Pandemic Agreement, with discussions to resume in late‑April ahead of its scheduled consideration by the World Health Assembly (WHA) in May.

Calls grow to strengthen global treaty to prevent vaccine shortages - SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of all South African current events. Africa's news leader.

African countries could face another shortage of life-saving vaccines during future health outbreaks if key provisions in the proposed global pandemic treaty are not strengthened. The concern relates to the Pathogens Access and Benefit-Sharing (PABS) Annex, which forms part of negotiations under the World Health Organisation’s pandemic agreement currently being discussed in Geneva, Switzerland. Health organisations across Africa have warned that…

Global Health Watch: Pandemic Treaty Tensions, Public Health Emergency, CDC Instability & Global Fund’s Role in Bilateral Health Deals

Pandemic treaty negotiations ahead of the World Health Assembly in May show rising tensions, as countries push for equity in pathogen sharing, alongside the expansion of US bilateral health deals and the evolving role of the Global Fund within this shifting architecture. This issue also covers calls to declare recent US global health policy shifts a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, deepening instability at the US Centers for Dis…