Climate Change and Neglected Tropical Diseases: Key Takeaways from the WHO-WIPO-WTO Trilateral Symposium
Neglected tropical diseases were at the forefront of a recent convening on human health and climate change.
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Read more: Reclaiming Global Public Health Reclaiming Global Public Health
The promise of COVID vaccines has been unevenly realized: fault lines have emerged between those able to secure doses and those left behind.
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Read more: Decolonizing the Pandemic Treaty Through Vaccine Equity Decolonizing the Pandemic Treaty Through Vaccine Equity
Putting vaccine equity at the center of a pandemic treaty will already be a huge step towards global health’s decolonization.
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Read more: Strengthening Global and National Governance for Gender Equality in Health Emergencies Strengthening Global and National Governance for Gender Equality in Health Emergencies
An international instrument on pandemic preparedness and response should advance gender equality through inclusive global and national governance.
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Read more: The Pandemic Treaty and Intellectual Property Sharing: Making Vaccine Knowledge a Public Good The Pandemic Treaty and Intellectual Property Sharing: Making Vaccine Knowledge a Public Good
The pandemic has laid bare the lack of regulation for the sharing of intellectual property needed for an effective and equitable response.
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Read more: The Pandemic Treaty as a Framework for Global Solidarity: Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations in Global Health Governance The Pandemic Treaty as a Framework for Global Solidarity: Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations in Global Health Governance
WHO has an opportunity to advance extraterritorial obligations under the right to health as an international legal basis for global solidarity.
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Read more: 21st Century Lawmaking in an Interdependent World 21st Century Lawmaking in an Interdependent World
A new pandemic instrument should explicitly embrace the three emerging global regulatory standards of due diligence, due regard, and regulatory coherence.
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Read more: Strengthening International Legal Authorities to Advance Global Health Security Strengthening International Legal Authorities to Advance Global Health Security
An innovative pandemic treaty could become a transformative model of global solidarity in the face of common threats.
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Read more: Moving Beyond a State-Centric Pandemic Preparedness Paradigm: A Call for Action Moving Beyond a State-Centric Pandemic Preparedness Paradigm: A Call for Action
The state-centric infectious disease regime violates the fundamental principle of how contagious diseases spread within and across countries.
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Read more: Access-to-Medicines Activists Demand Health Justice During COVID-19 Pandemic Access-to-Medicines Activists Demand Health Justice During COVID-19 Pandemic
Activists in the access-to-medicines movement have mobilized to combat the threat of vaccine/therapeutic apartheid during the COVID-19 pandemic.