How can the WHO Pathogen Access and Benefits System (PABS) keep pace with science?

Summer Galloway and I examine what AI-assisted research reveals about clear permissions, coordinated benefit sharing, and a technology-neutral Annex.

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Because they're #PABs

Fundamentally #Pandemic #PABS impass is not technical, just political: most of the world recognizes w/o sharing technology, next pandemic will play out just like COVID, HIV.
Rich country companies oppose➡️their govts block agreement.
MOH’s can’t change that. So what will happen? … 1/2

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6️⃣ The final days centered largely on governance – including the role of @who.int and the future #PABS advisory group. The WHO laboratory network was also the subject of extensive discussion, as delegates weighed how it fits into the wider #PABS architecture.

4️⃣ Attention also turned to 'downstream' measures (ie controls applied by regulatory agencies during the development & approval of viable products) as a complementary checkpoint to ensure #PABS benefits are enforced. @cepi.net & other stakeholders backed this type of measure.

3️⃣ Part of the week was spent discussing the trade-offs of the proposed #PABS data access models, with no convergence yet. The EU-backed ‘hybrid’ model would let pathogen data flow across databases; the Africa Group's ‘federated’ model would keep data with the country holding it.

Over five days at #IGWG8, @who.int Member States sought to advance the #PABS Annex – but no major breakthrough emerged. Complex discussions continued on how pathogen data would flow through the system and how benefits would be enforced.

Key takeaways 🧵👇🏼

by the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (from July) www.kas.de/documents/64... With a subsection, "One system, two models". #PABS That didn't end too well somewhere else in the world, i recall : )

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CSOs filed a complaint with the OHCHR to scrutinize if the EU, Norway, Japan & Switzerland are living up to their human rights commitments in the WHO #PABS negotiations.

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Americo Beviglia Zampetti presenting to the European Parliament on the state of play of #PABS negotiations. multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstream... @who.int

Namibia says proposed US data- and pathogen-sharing terms may conflict with national laws on privacy and biological resources.

The dispute comes as @who.int members negotiate global rules for pathogen access and benefit-sharing.

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We can send the sergeant of arms to forcibly deliver him to the congressional floor.
Should have been done go Jordan and all the rest but Republicans are #PABs

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