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PABS Annex: WHO Member States to Allow Observers as Negotiations Enter Critical Phase
At around 6:30 PM CEST on Friday, 19 September 2025, relevant stakeholders were invited to observe the closure of the second meeting of the open-ended Intergovernmental Working Group on the WHO Pandemic Agreement and witnessed WHO Member States set an… Continue Reading
KEI calls for more transparency in the WHO pathogen access and benefit sharing system (PABS) negotiations
On Tuesday, 16 September 2025, Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) delivered the following opening statement at the Second meeting of the open-ended Intergovernmental Working Group on the WHO Pandemic Agreement. Second meeting of the open-ended Intergovernmental Working Group on the WHO… Continue Reading
Table top simulations and licensing proposals round out country submissions on pathogen access and benefit sharing
On 20 May 2025, the World Health Assembly (WHA) adopted the WHO Pandemic Agreement “pursuant to Article 19 of the Constitution of the World Health Organization” through resolution WHA78.1. While achieving consensus on a number of fronts including pandemic prevention… Continue Reading
May 27, 1998 Department of State cable: REVISED DRUG STRATEGY AT W.H.O.: ATMOSPHERICS OF THE DEBATE, AND RECOMMENDED PLAN OF ACTION
CONFIDENTIAL RELEASED IN FULL CONFIDENTIAL PTQ1906 PAGE 01 GENEVA 03470 01 OF 09 271621Z ACTION 10-00 425261 271705Z /38 O 271615Z MAY 98 FM USMISSION GENEVA TO SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 6208 INFO IO COLLECTIVE AMEMBASSY LONDON AMEMBASSY BRASILIA AMEMBASSY BUENOS… Continue Reading
European Commission October 5, 1998 note memorandum on the WHO Revised Drug Strategy negotiation
European Commission (DG 1) note on the WHO’s Revised Drug Strategy EUROPEAN COMMISSION DIRECTORATE GENERAL 1 EXTERNAL RELATIONS: COMMERCIAL POLICY AND RELATIONS WITH NORTH AMERICA. THE FAR EAST, AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND Directorate D -Sectoral trade questions,… Continue Reading
WHO Pandemic agreement text as of Saturday, 12 April 2025 at 09:05
This is the pandemic agreement text, as of today. Negotiations are resumed Tuesday, but this is what people expect to be in the fine agreement. Green is supposed to mean the text is final. The EU still not in agreement… Continue Reading
Day 5 of WHO INB 13, negotiations on a pandemic agreement
The text as of February 21, 2025. Proposal_for_WHO_Pandemic_Agreement_E -Onscreen 21 February KEI’s morning intervention: KEI thanks the WHO for approving a 1pm side event, in room W1, where several NGOs will provide reflections on this negotiation. On a different note,… Continue Reading
Day 2 of WHO INB negotiations on a pandemic agreement.
These are notes from KEI’s February 18 morning intervention: Regarding the footnote to Article 11, on technology transfer, there has been a long standing dispute over the use of words or phrases like voluntary, mutually agreed terms, in the context… Continue Reading
Day 1 of INB13, the WHO negotiations on a pandemic agreement.
Some notes on day 1 of the WHO INB 13 negotiations a pandemic agreement. The Feb 6, 2025 version of the negotiating text is here: 6Feb2025-INB-text This is note from KEI’s morning intervention on the footnote in Article 11 on… Continue Reading