GENEVA, Switzerland — Countries reconvened on Monday in a bid to finalize a landmark global agreement on handling future pandemics, with the specter of mpox, Marburg and H5N1 adding fresh urgency to seal a deal.
After more than two years of talks, hopes are high of completing an accord by November 15, though the heart of the document — how to share pathogens and vaccines — is set to be worked out later.In December 2021, fearing a repeat of the devastation wrought by Covid-19 — which killed millions of people, crippled health systems and crashed economies — the World Health Organization's 194 member states agreed to draft an accord on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response.
Sangeeta Shashikant, the Third World Network NGO's intellectual property and development coordinator, said many of the PABS proposals put forward by developing countries had been 'diluted and deleted.''The feeling is there is really no meaningful deliverable' that would overturn the inequities of Covid-19, she told journalists. 'The negotiation has kind of lost its purpose.
Accord Deal In Sight As Talks Resume
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