The World Health Pandemic Treaty Falters, By Brian Simpson

Here is more good news. The World Health Organization pandemic treaty has run into something of a wall, as there at present is no agreed text. So, there will be further debate about what actually goes into it. There is still a chance that a treaty could be supported in a revised form for a vote on May 27 2024, but some express doubts that a document that will produce agreement will be forthcoming in that time frame.

Let us hope that the present negotiations fail and at a minimum the pandemic treaty gets kicked further down the road. That gives more time to organise protests, and for either Trump or Robert Kennedy to become US president and end it all.

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"Talks on the WHO Pandemic Treaty have ended without an agreed text, with the next steps up for debate, putting the treaty at risk. The Gazette has more.

Talks to draw up a global pact to help fight future pandemics have ended without a draft agreement, sources close to the process said on Friday.

Negotiators from the World Health Organisation's (WHO) 194 member states were hoping to have a final draft agreement by the end of Friday, with a view towards adopting the legally-binding text at the World Health Assembly later this month.

But they stopped negotiating on the text at lunchtime and have moved instead to working out how best to continue work on the treaty – either in the next few weeks, months or even years, one official said.

The aim of the document, alongside a series of updates to existing rules on dealing with pandemics, is to shore up the world's defences against new pathogens after the COVID-19 pandemic killed millions of people.

But there have been deep disagreements throughout the negotiating process, particularly around equity, and the timeline for reaching an agreement was always ambitious, experts said. The accord, commonly known as a treaty, has also become politicised in some countries.

The WHO issued a press release on Friday where it claimed negotiations will continue on the draft text ahead of the vote on May 27th.

Governments of the world today agreed to continue working on a proposed pandemic agreement, and to further refine the draft, ahead of the 77th World Health Assembly that starts May 27th 2024.

Governments meeting at the World Health Organisation headquarters in Geneva agreed to resume hybrid and in-person discussions over coming weeks to advance work on critical issues, including around a proposed new global system for pathogen access and benefits sharing (i.e., life-saving vaccines, treatments and diagnostics); pandemic prevention and One Health; and the financial coordination needed to scale up countries' capacities to prepare for and respond to pandemics.

However, with no text agreed in the current talks, the prospect of arriving at a draft that can be put to a vote at the end of May is looking increasingly remote.