Politico April 30, 2024
Health advocacy groups are feeling glum about the prospects for a global agreement that would improve nations’ response when the next pandemic comes.
The World Health Organization’s self-imposed deadline for countries to reach a deal — more than two years in the making — is next month, and diplomats negotiating in Geneva are trying to meet it.
But more than 130 advocacy groups have urged WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to “refrain from advocating or pressuring” countries to accept the latest draft, our European colleagues report.
The groups, from developing countries worldwide, say the current draft “perpetuates the status quo” and lacks meaningful provisions to force pharmaceutical companies to share their intellectual property. The negotiating process, they added, is “egregiously...
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