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WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus urged countries to finalize the Pathogen Access and Benefit-Sharing system by May to enhance pandemic preparedness and equitable vaccine access.
- On Monday, WHO Chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus urged countries to complete the Pathogen Access and Benefit-Sharing system this week, warning against the "dangerous temptation" to seek more negotiating time as "this will get harder, not easier."
- When WHO member states adopted a landmark pandemic agreement in May 2025 after more than three years of negotiations following Covid-19, they deferred the PABS mechanism—the treaty's operational core—extending talks for one additional year.
- At stake is how countries will share pathogens with pandemic potential and distribute resulting vaccines, tests and treatments; negotiators in Geneva have until Saturday to resolve the implementation details of this vital mechanism.
- Calling this "probably the only chance" to succeed, Tedros welcomed negotiators back Monday for what he hopes will be the final meeting, emphasizing the need to complete the agreement and avoid wasting four-and-a-half years of work.
- The finalized system will determine whether countries can coordinate responses preventing the pandemic chaos and international disarray of Covid-19, with Tedros stressing negotiators must ensure the completed text solves problems exposed during the coronavirus crisis.
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The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) asked Member States to finalise this week the last chapter of the pandemic Agreement, designed in particular to avoid panic generated at the time of COVID-19, inform AFP, taken by Agerpres. The WHO Member States whose representatives joined the headquarters of ...
At a meeting in Geneva, WHO Member States need to reach agreement on pandemics. The aim is to avoid the panic situation experienced during the Covid-19 in 2020.
On Monday, the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) urged its member countries to finalize this week the final part of the Pandemic Agreement, designed in particular to avoid the panic created at the time by VOCID-19.
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WHO chief urges countries to complete pandemic agreement
The World Health Organization chief on Monday urged countries to complete the missing piece of a pandemic agreement designed to avoid the panic and chaos of Covid-19 this week.
Pandemic Talks: Europe Is Blocking Health Equity – And It Knows It
Final talks on the Pathogen Access and Benefit-Sharing (PABS) system, the last outstanding piece of the Pandemic Agreement, are being held in Geneva this week. The Pandemic Agreement, being negotiated in Geneva, emerged to address the unacceptable inequities that defined the COVID-19 global health disaster. During this pandemic, delayed and inequitable access to vaccines may […]
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