📣 @medwma.bsky.social commends dedicated efforts of @who.int Member States & all involved over the past 3 years to negotiate the Global Pandemic Agreement. WMA urges its formal adoption at the 78th World Health Assembly in May #PandemicAccord #PPPR #INB13 #GlobalHealth #MedSky
The AFP story from 15 April 2025 provides some color: "The talks were taking place behind closed doors at the WHO headquarters, but delegates frequently stepped out for informal discussions in the corridors, huddling over coffee and pizza as they tried to unblock the sticky bits." @who.int #INB13
@medwma.bsky.social commends dedicated efforts of
@who.int Member States & all involved over 3 years to negotiate the Global Pandemic Agreement and urges its formal adoption at 78th World Health Assembly. 🔗 See WMA press release ow.ly/lEq950VBsC1 #PandemicAccord #PPPR #INB13 #GlobalHealth #MedSky
Colombia: "This agreement preserves the regulatory authority of states to adopt necessary measures in times of emergency." @WHO #INB13
Colombia: "This agreement preserves the regulatory authority of states to adopt necessary measures in times of emergency. And we reiterate as in recent years, that no country should be subject to direct or indirect diplomatic or trade pressures seeking to discourage the use of flexibilities adopted in TRIPS."
Colombia: "And we reiterate as in recent years, that no country should be subject to direct or indirect diplomatic or trade pressures seeking to discourage the use of flexibilities adopted in TRIPS." #INB13 @who.int #PandemicAgreement @drtedros.who.int @noiweala.bsky.social @wto.org
Group for Equity which includes: "Bangladesh, Botswana, Brazil, China, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Egypt, El Salvador, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Fiji, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Iran, Kenya, Malaysia, Mexico, Namibia, Pakistan, Palestine, Paraguay, Peru, the Philppines, South Africa, Tanzania, Thailand, Costa Rica, Uruguay, Syria, Bolivia, Honduras, Samoa, and Lesotho."
The Philippines delivered a closing statement on behalf of the Group for Equity. @who.int #INB13
"The INB requested the Bureau, with the support of the Secretariat and at least two weeks prior to [WHA78] to ensure the uniformity of terminology throughout the text of the draft agreement; harmonize it in the six official languages of WHO; and to ensure its legal soundness" @who.int #WHA78 #INB13
Gathering after 3am local time, sleepless #INB13 negotiators shared optimism for the pandemic agreement and reinforced the message of solidarity and that “MULTILATERALISM CAN DELIVER” 💥
HISTORIC MILESTONE! After three years of negotiations, we have #INB13 CONSENSUS on the pandemic agreement text, paving the way to submit the agreement to #WHA78.
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Starting soon - the closing segment of #INB13 continued pandemic agreement negotiations.
Watch here: www.who.int/news-room/ev...
"French President Emmanuel Macron has welcomed the progress, saying a pandemic treaty "is creating a new system to better protect us," .....on Saturday. Another "remaining issue is language related to sanctions" under Article 13, said Thiru Balasubramaniam at the NGO Knowledge Ecology International (KEI), who has been monitoring the talks. The text provides for the establishment of a global supply chain and logistics network to expand access to vaccines, treatments and tests needed to fight pandemics, or in humanitarian crisis situations. However, in discussions on Article 13, countries have yet to agree on granting unhindered access to health products outside of the pandemics or humanitarian contexts, which would allow countries under international sanctions to obtain things like vaccines, tests and treatments."
!["The Global Supply Chain and Logistics Network (the GSCL Network) is hereby established to enhance, facilitate, and work to remove barriers to, equitable, timely, rapid, safe, and affordable access to pandemic-related health products during public health emergencies of international concern, including pandemic emergencies, as well as to enable unimpeded access to such products at all times and in humanitarian settings [at all times], in accordance with international law."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:aecv4ejztgiv64dhygwopm2h/bafkreiaxypfciglzxth3woec3brkahchm6luuz7lbw5ybdideflo2njhye)
"The Global Supply Chain and Logistics Network (the GSCL Network) is hereby established to enhance, facilitate, and work to remove barriers to, equitable, timely, rapid, safe, and affordable access to pandemic-related health products during public health emergencies of international concern, including pandemic emergencies, as well as to enable unimpeded access to such products at all times and in humanitarian settings [at all times], in accordance with international law."
As adumbrated in the AFP, the topic of sanctions remains one of the two remaining sticky issues in the @who.int #INB13 negotiations on a pandemic treaty. @afpfr.bsky.social
🌍 ESCMID = fun + learning + a bit of mystery.
Despite a late arrival (thanks to the #PandemicAccord #INB13), #ESCMIDGlobal was a blast—amazing science, colleagues, and… a scavenger hunt.
🧩 Here’s the final riddle—can you crack it?
#IDsky #IDWeek2025
@escmid.bsky.social @idsainfo.bsky.social
@medwma.bsky.social recognises the unprecedented work at #PandemicAccord negotiations in Geneva last week, marathon efforts & tomorrow's resumption. Let's seize this opportunity to finalise the text @who.int #INB13 #PandemicAgreement 🔗 WMA statement ow.ly/C0zM50VzMu6 #MedSky @yassentch.bsky.social
Great as up-to-date as it gets reporting from Geneva late night negotiations for the #PandemicAccord.
#INB13 @who.int
Great presentation about global instruments for emergency preparedness and #pandemic response by Professor Yee Sin Leo at #ESCMIDGlobal2025 including nice up to date update on the ongoing #INB13 #PandemicAccord negotiations.
#ESCMIDGlobal
Selfie taken by Yassen Tcholakov on Saturday, 12 April 2025 at WHO just after dawn. #INB13 @yassentch.bsky.social @who.int @keiwashdc.bsky.social @msffrance.bsky.social
"unhindered" and "[at all times]" will be taken up on Tuesday, 15 April 2025 at the resumed sesssion of #INB13. @who.int @healthpolicywatch.bsky.social @msffrance.bsky.social @jamielove.bsky.social @emmafarge.bsky.social @roneilll.bsky.social @genevahealthfiles.bsky.social
The #PandemicAgreement is a critical milestone — the first legally binding global effort to address the upstream drivers of pandemic risk by integrating human, animal, and environmental health tinyurl.com/yw822zwe
#INB13 #OneHealth
Article 11 time #INB13 - The interpreters are booked till 9:00 CEST, 12 April 2025.
On the final day of @who.int #INB13, WMA commends all working toward a strong #PandemicAgreement and urges action to ensure equity, global solidarity, One Health, & frontline protection.
📄 Full statement delivered by Dr @yassentch.bsky.social www.wma.net/wp-content/u...
#MedSky
"It’s really maddening because what the EU is trying to do here is have language that would be interpreted as a global norm that you could only use voluntary measures for know-how transfers,” Love told Rory." #INB13 @jamielove.bsky.social @unitaidngos.bsky.social
"That’s not strong enough for the EU, particularly Germany, who insist it must also be voluntary. Officials in charge of the talks — the bureau, in WHO jargon — circulated a new text with five different compromise proposals Wednesday night, raising hopes of a breakthrough." #INB13
"The mood appeared to see-saw throughout Thursday, according to another observer, Ellen ‘t Hoen, director of Medicines Law and Policy, who has been keeping a close eye on negotiations over a troublesome footnote that says all technology transfer must be on mutually agreed terms." #INB13
