This is the question that is on the lips of many people working in global health as we enter into the final stretch of negotiations for a pandemic accord. Deliberations are taking place in the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB), which was tasked with drafting an instrument in an ambitious timeline of two years considerably shorter than most international legal negotiations with an assumption that the severity of covid-19 would inspire the world’s governments to come together and seek a better path for preventing, preparing for, detecting, and responding to future pandemics.1 The Treaty text is meant to be finalised and agreed by May 2024.
However, two years on many fear that negotiations are stalling.2 Despite thousands of hours of formal and informal negotiations, and several rounds of draft texts, there still remain vast tides of differences between how countries are approaching the substantive content of these negotiations. The central issue remains equitable access to coun
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