{"id":2950,"date":"2023-09-28T11:19:18","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T15:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amrefcanada.org\/?p=2950"},"modified":"2023-09-28T11:38:30","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T15:38:30","slug":"the-world-hopes-to-enact-a-pandemic-treaty-by-may-2024-will-it-succeed-or-flail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amrefcanada.org\/news\/the-world-hopes-to-enact-a-pandemic-treaty-by-may-2024-will-it-succeed-or-flail\/","title":{"rendered":"The world hopes to enact a pandemic treaty by May 2024. Will it succeed or flail?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2950-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/newsroom.amref.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/20230921_atc_the_world_hopes_to_enact_a_pandemic_treaty_by_may_2024_will_it_succeed_or_flail.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.amref.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/20230921_atc_the_world_hopes_to_enact_a_pandemic_treaty_by_may_2024_will_it_succeed_or_flail.mp3\">https:\/\/newsroom.amref.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/20230921_atc_the_world_hopes_to_enact_a_pandemic_treaty_by_may_2024_will_it_succeed_or_flail.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: var(--awb-bg-color-hover); color: var(--awb-text-color); font-family: var(--awb-text-font-family); font-size: var(--awb-font-size); font-style: var(--awb-text-font-style); font-weight: var(--awb-text-font-weight); letter-spacing: var(--awb-letter-spacing); text-align: var(--awb-content-alignment); text-transform: var(--awb-text-transform);\">At the height of the pandemic, world leaders proposed a bold idea. They envisioned a pandemic treaty that would obligate countries to work together to prevent future health emergencies like COVID \u2014 in other words, to cooperate in a way that didn\u2019t quite happen when SARS-CoV-2 struck.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The World Health Assembly set the deadline for such an accord: May 2024. The idea was to light a fire under the participants \u2014 and have the accord ready when the assembly convenes in Geneva. But negotiations have seized up around a series of issues. How would such a treaty be enforced? How would it be financed?<\/p>\n<p>And there\u2019s a growing gulf between countries in the Global North who want to hold onto the intellectual property to create and sell vaccines, diagnostics and medicines \u2014 and countries in the Global South who say that such technology should be shared in times of crisis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe question is,\u201d asks Dr. Githinji Gitahi, CEO of <a href=\"https:\/\/amref.org\/\">Amref Health Africa<\/a>, \u201cdo you profit from it until the end? Or is there a moral right to allow other people access to it so that they can also manufacture this thing that is going to save human life?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gitahi says one solution is to fund companies\u2019 research and development with taxpayer dollars. In exchange, they would then share any resulting technology freely. In a public health emergency, \u201chuman life would override the profit intent.\u201d<strong> <\/strong>But he doubts that idea will gain much traction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s going to be a real fight,\u201d says Gitahi. \u201cIt was a fight during COVID and people were dying. Right now, we are discussing without a crisis. So it\u2019s unlikely that anyone will give in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/unfoundation.org\/who-we-are\/our-people\/kate-dodson-2\/\">Kate Dodson<\/a>, vice president for global health at the United Nations Foundation, agrees it\u2019s a hard process. \u201cMember states are coming into these negotiations from really different experiences,\u201d she says. \u201cI think there\u2019s a trust deficit. And some really different views about the best ways to better prepare the world for the next pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A hopeful start to treaty talks<\/h3>\n<p>These roadblocks weren\u2019t always inevitable. In fact, at the beginning of the conversation, everything seemed possible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEarly drafts of the pandemic treaty were transformational,\u201d says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/faculty\/lawrence-o-gostin\/\">Lawrence Gostin<\/a>, a professor of global health law at Georgetown University who\u2019s been involved with the drafting of the treaty since the start. \u201cThey looked at things that we\u2019ve never looked at before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those ideas included a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/onehealth\/\">One Health<\/a> approach to fighting pandemics \u2013 that means a focus on the interactions between people, animals and their environments. \u201cWe were gonna try to work on deforestation and wet markets and preventing spillover from an animal to a human that appeared to occur in Wuhan,\u201d says Gostin. \u201cThere were mechanisms for funding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe saw [the treaty] as an opportunity to correct a lot of wrongs,\u201d says Nelson Aghogho Evaborhene, project coordinator with the nonprofit <a href=\"https:\/\/prediagnosis.org\/\">Prediagnosis Sierra Leone<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He says there were hopes the treaty would make things more equitable between nations. Then countries in the Global North and South would be self-sufficient \u201cso that the dependency on other countries for access to these technologies during pandemics [won\u2019t] occur again.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Historic \u2026 or a pipe dream?<\/h3>\n<p>As time went on, the treaty was diluted and defanged. \u201cPolitical will faded,\u201d Gostin says. \u201cMemories faded.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With the treaty sputtering, eyes turned to this week\u2019s United Nations General Assembly in New York City. On Wednesday, global leaders adopted a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/77\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/105\/2023\/06\/Zero-draft-PPPR-Political-Declaration-5-June.pdf\">political declaration<\/a> recognizing the need for nations to work together to prevent and respond to future pandemics. It\u2019s intended to jump-start treaty negotiations. In a statement, the World Health Organization called the declaration \u201chistoric.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO\u2019s director-general, made public remarks after the adoption. \u201cThe declaration is a strong signal from countries that they are committed to learning the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic,\u201d he said, \u201cand to strengthening the world\u2019s defences against pandemics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The declaration asserts that a strong pandemic response requires urgent and continued leadership and global solidarity. Dodson, who\u2019s attending the General Assembly this week, heard from member states that they\u2019re committed to developing a pandemic treaty. \u201cThey don\u2019t want it to flail,\u201d she says. \u201cAnd that was a resounding message.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Gitahi says the declaration is purely aspirational without any clear commitments or calls for real accountability. \u201d I am concerned that we will not have a bold pandemic treaty,\u201d he says. \u201cThen, in the next pandemic, whatever we had in COVID will be repeated, word for word.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has a lot of high-mind[ed] phrases, a lot of self-congratulation,\u201d says Gostin. \u201cBut almost nothing in terms of action, commitments or funding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gostin says that the window of creating a treaty that could make a real difference is rapidly closing \u201cbecause political leaders are turning their attention to other issues like the Ukraine war, inflation and climate change.\u201d He worries that we could be squandering the most important moment for global health security since the founding of the WHO in 1948.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter all of the suffering of COVID-19, all of the loss of life, pushing people into absolute poverty and loss of education,\u201d he says, \u201cnow is our one shot to do something that really can make the world a little bit safer, a little bit more secure and fairer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But there are still optimists in the crowd. The declaration may not be perfect, but Mike Ryan, executive director of WHO\u2019s Health Emergencies Programme, likens it to a new year\u2019s resolution \u2014 in this case, a kind of promise to take action.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe declaration itself won\u2019t solve anything,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s a piece of paper. But sometimes in life, just sometimes, you make that promise and you keep it. And we owe it to the people of the world to keep that promise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A mere eight months remain to see how real that promise will actually become.<\/p>\n<p>Credits:<\/p>\n<p>Article first published on: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/goatsandsoda\/2023\/09\/21\/1200816304\/the-world-hopes-to-enact-a-pandemic-treaty-by-may-2024-will-it-succeed-or-flail\">https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/goatsandsoda\/2023\/09\/21\/1200816304\/the-world-hopes-to-enact-a-pandemic-treaty-by-may-2024-will-it-succeed-or-flail<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.amref.org\/news\/2023\/09\/the-world-hopes-to-enact-a-pandemic-treaty-by-may-2024-will-it-succeed-or-flail\/\">The world hopes to enact a pandemic treaty by May 2024. 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