The World Health Organization negotiating body of the draft Pandemic Agreement to be voted on in late May produced yet another draft.
The new definition of "Pandemic-related health products" now contains additional standards of safeness, quality, and affordability.
This is the first time the "Global health emergency workforce" has appeared in Pandemic Agreement texts.
Publicly disclose information on national and, if applicable, regional processes for authorizing or approving the use of pandemic-related health products, and adopt regulatory reliance processes or other relevant regulatory pathways, as appropriate, for such pandemic- related health products that may be activated during a pandemic to increase efficiency, and shall update such information in a timely manner.
'Pandemic-related health products' is extremely broad. This reflects much of the Pandemic Agreement and makes one wonder why it is still considered necessary, rather than just relying on the voluntary 2005 version of the IHR. Article 18.
The Parties shall strengthen science, public health and pandemic literacy in the population, as well as access to transparent, accurate, science- and evidence-informed information on pandemics and their causes, impacts and drivers, particularly through risk communication and effective community-level engagement.
The Parties shall, as appropriate, conduct research to inform policies on factors that hinder or strengthen adherence to public health and social measures in a pandemic and trust in science and public health institutions, authorities and agencies.
https://brownstone.org/articles/who-pandemic-agreement-april-draft-additional-concerns/
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