Recently the 9th meeting of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) was convened to develop a revised draft of the negotiating text of the WHO Pandemic Agreement.
The ‘pandemic treaty’ was first proposed by Chile and the European Union (EU).
The COP suggests that the Agreement could be a classic international treaty adopted under Article 19 of the WHO Constitution as opposed to the alternative Article 21 opt-out regulations.
What are the concerns with the treaty?
Vaccine nationalism is a scenario where the wealthy countries sign deals with pharmaceutical companies directly to secure vaccines for their own populations limiting the stock available for others.
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