PABS: Key issues, growing pressure and what comes next

Together with People’s Health Movement (PHM), Public Services International, Third World Network (TWN) and AIDS Healthcare Foundation Europe

📅 Friday 10 April
⏰ 2:00–3:30 PM CET
🗣️ English | Spanish
📍 Online

Following the 6th meeting of the Intergovernmental Working Group (IGWG6), negotiations remain unresolved and are set to resume at the end of April before the World Health Assembly.
This briefing will provide a timely update on where discussions stand. Key outstanding issues include supplies of vaccines, diagnostics, and therapeutics during public health emergencies of international concern and early outbreaks, acceptance of benefit-sharing obligations as a condition to access pathogen samples and data, and user registration in WHO-recognized databases.
Also, a proposal for a dual track system for accessing PABS resources emerged on the sidelines of IGWG6. This proposal frustrates the very objective of the PABS system, but it is being marketed as a compromise formula between developed and developing countries.
One positive thing to report is the increasing attention the topic has gotten, with hundreds of civil society actions around the world.
This is a critical moment in the process. We will host a space for discussion and strategizing together for those who have been following and for those who were not able to follow so far. Register!