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📢Today, the Intergovernmental Working Group (IGWG) for the #pandemictreaty started its 3rd meeting to develop a Pathogen Access and Benefits Sharing (PABS) Annex. The meeting takes place on 3-7 Nov in Geneva. 🧵

👇Checkout our joint statement here: @PandemicAction, @GPHC_Panel, @HelenClarkNZ, @fourpawsint, @save_children

The day will continue on drafting PABS Annex text, with focus on Section II Provisions for Implementation of the PABS System: 🪜Operation of the PABS System 🧬Access to PABS Materials and Sequence Information 🍎PABS System benefit-sharing

Stakeholder asked to: 🗺️Create comprehensive, legally binding text ✏️Operationalize benefit-sharing with clearer details 💵Integrate affordability 🧩Include stakeholders in negotiations & use technical expertise 💊Focus on diagnostics, therapeutics & knowhow, not only vaccines

Process-wise 🏁Start line-by-line negotiations asap 🗞️Build on existing convergence & limit negotiations to critical issues 🚒Use intersessions to keep going 💪Pressure test with experts 🎈Include Stakeholders where possible to increase trust 📆Circulate docs in all UN languages

State interventions on focus: 🦠Develop predictable system for both peacetime and pandemics 📜Ensure sovereign rights while commit to openess & transparency ⚖️Operationalize and guarantee equity 🔨 Strengthen legal commitments 🔍Design accountability and enforcement mechanism

🌎Opening, reporting and closure sessions will be publicly broadcasted. 🌄Every day starts with open session with Relevant Stakeholders 🔒Actual drafting sessions and next steps will be for Member States only.

🌎Opening, reporting and closure sessions will be publicly broadcasted. 🌄Every day starts with open session with Relevant Stakeholders. 🔒Actual drafting sessions and next steps will be for Member States only.

🫶DG Tedros welcomed delegates back to WHO. 🕰️As there will be only 3 meetings after IGWG3, he urged Member States to have draft text ready by end of this year – to give enough time for negotiations before April 20 hard deadline.

📍Co-chair Tovar (Brazil) opened meeting, noting that IGWG is now ready to start developing actual text. 📜The Bureau, supported by the WHO Secretariat, has developed initial draft based on IGWG2 outline discussions, with inputs from Member States and Relevant Stakeholders.

📢Today, the Intergovernmental Working Group (IGWG) for the #pandemictreaty started its 3rd meeting to develop a Pathogen Access and Benefits Sharing (PABS) Annex. The meeting takes place on 3-7 Nov in Geneva. 🧵

📢 As the @WorldHealthSmt begins this week, one question is front and center: how should global health architecture adapt? With SDGs deadline looming and funding cuts deepening, reform is no longer optional. 🧵

⏳ Global health architecture is at a crossroad. Reform debates are moving beyond donor-driven fixes toward equity, sovereignty, sustainability, and coordination. The key question? What remains global and what shifts to national and regional levels. https://t.co/4Yho8uhtcd

⚖️ The scope of reform varies. Some proposals seek modest adjustments within existing institutions. Others call for a complete redesign. This shows both momentum for change and raises questions over what belongs at the global level versus the national or regional level.

🌍 Together they capture different pathways to organize, govern, and finance global health. Despite their differences, these proposals overlap on key principles: ✔️ Equity ✔️ Sovereignty and country ownership ✔️ Sustainability ✔️ Coordination

💡 Our new paper with @clara_greiner and @sulehti summarizes five reform initiatives: the Lusaka Agenda, the A Wellcome Trust initiative, a @NatureMedicine commentary, the Gavi Leap, and the Accra Initiative.

📢 As the @WorldHealthSmt begins this week, one question is front and center: how should global health architecture adapt? With SDGs deadline looming and funding cuts deepening, reform is no longer optional. 🧵

Small correction - stakeholders ARE invited to listen on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon.

🔒The remaining 4 informal meeting days will be open for Member States and experts only. 🚪Relevant stakeholders are not invited to listen. ➡️IGWG3 will take place from 3 to 7 November, resuming discussions and negotiations for PABS Annex.

They also discussed PABS Sequence Information and Databases, providing insights on ⚖️WHO principles for ethical human genomic data collection and sharing 💻WHO and other databases 🧩Interoperability ✏️Digital identifiers 🎟️Different data use cases and users