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The pandemic treaty: a grand global social bargain

The treaty is a grand social bargain of open sharing of crucial scientific data in real time and equitable allocation of lifesaving medical countermeasures.
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  1. Lawrence O. Gostin

    1. Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA.

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The 77th World Health Assembly was supposed to celebrate the adoption of an historic pandemic treaty. Yet after 2 years, negotiations in Geneva collapsed amid sharp divisions and distrust. Renewed negotiations are now scheduled to conclude by 2025.

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Nature Medicine 30, 2112 (2024)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41591-024-00043-z

Competing interests

L.G. is a member of the WHO Review Committee on the International Health Regulations, directs the WHO Collaborating Center on National and Global Health Law, and has been actively supporting WHO and the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body on the Pandemic Agreement.

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