US EditionWHO delays pandemic treaty amid pathogen-sharing dispute
Member states want up to a year more to settle pathogen-sharing rules that must be finalized before the pandemic accord can take effect.
- On Friday, World Health Organization member states extended negotiations on the Pathogen Access and Benefit-Sharing annex, casting doubt on when the pandemic treaty adopted last year can take effect.
- Negotiators set aside this critical section during the May 2025 adoption of the Pandemic Agreement to secure a deal, as wealthy and developing nations remained at loggerheads over implementation.
- Talks remain stalled by demands for guaranteed vaccine access outside pandemics, alongside disputes over pharmaceutical company financial contributions and genetic sequence access.
- World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated, "Real progress was made," while Helen Clark, co-chair of The Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response, called the failure "deeply regrettable."
- Member states will decide on next steps at the annual World Health Assembly in Geneva from May 18 to 23, where they may submit the outcome to the next assembly in May 2027.
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AlKhaleej TodayPandemic treaty talks deadlocked, leaving world ‘largely unprepared’, WHO warned
GENEVA, May 2 — The World Health Organisation said yesterday that divided member states want up to a year of further negotiations on the missing piece of an international agreement on handling future pandemics.After a week of grindingly slow progress in talks at the WHO headquarters in Geneva, countries came to a stop and will decide on the next steps at the annual assembly of member states, to be held in the Swiss city from May 18 to 23.Wealthy…
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Gridlock as pandemic treaty talks fail to finish
The World Health Organization said Friday that divided member states want up to a year of further negotiations on the missing piece of an international agreement on handling future pandemics.
WHO delays pandemic treaty amid pathogen-sharing dispute
May 1 (Reuters) – World Health Organization member states said on Friday they had extended talks on pathogen-sharing rules, casting doubt on when a pandemic treaty adopted last year can come into effect. The talks are focused on a system intended to ensure countries quickly share pathogens that could cause pandemics while receiving fair access to vaccines, tests and treatments that result from their use. Known as the Pathogen Access and Be…
WHO delays pandemic treaty amid pathogen-sharing dispute - Regional Media News
May 1 (Reuters) - World Health Organization member states said on Friday they had extended talks on pathogen-sharing rules, casting doubt on when a pandemic treaty adopted last year can come into effect. The talks are focused on a system intended to ensure countries quickly share pathogens that could cause pandemics while receiving fair access to vaccines, tests and treatments that result from their use. Known as the Pathogen Access and Benefit-…
Pathogen-sharing conflict causes WHO to delay pandemic treaty
The talks are focused on a system intended to ensure countries quickly share pathogens that could cause pandemics while receiving fair access to vaccines, tests and treatments that result from their use, News.Az reports, citing foreign media. *** Known as the Pathogen Access and Benefit-Sharing (PABS) annex, it governs how countries share data and samples of pathogens that pose public health risks and seeks to ensure equitable access to vaccines…
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