GENEVA (AN) — Negotiators have failed to resolve the central equity dispute in the World Health Organization’s pandemic agreement, extending talks into a compressed final stretch just weeks before the treaty goes before member nations in May.
Delegates to the Intergovernmental Working Group on the WHO Pandemic Agreement suspended negotiations on Saturday night after failing to agree on how to incorporate the accord's core operational element, the Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing, or PABS system. They agreed to reconvene from April 27 to May 1, just ahead of the World Health Assembly.
