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While Dr Alakija said the most significant achievement of the health track was the launch of the Global Initiative on Digital Health with the Global South leading the way, she also expressed concern on the interim medical countermeasures platform proposed by India.
For the Pandemic Accord to be effective, member states must urgently focus negotiations to define its scope, including its definition of “pandemic,” and ensure the definition avoids the pitfalls of past mistakes, argue Noor Shakfeh, Fifa Rahman, and Katri Bertram Member states of the Intergovernmental Negotiation Body (INB)1 have roughly nine months left before they need to present a draft outcome to the World Health Assembly in May 2024. While their negotiations to date have understandably focused on provisions related to access and benefit-sharing, and distribution of countermeasures, th...
As the 5th meeting of the Intergovernmental Negotiation Body resumed in Geneva, on June 12th, PSI delivered a statement denouncing the setbacks in key areas in the context of the negotiations of a future pandemic accord.