Governments will gather in Geneva this week to decide whether to enter into a legally binding agreement on greater funding and improved global access to medicines and vaccines to better tackle future pandemics.
Over three days, they will consider whether to start drafting a legal convention on responding to health emergencies, for only the second time since the approval of World Health Organisation’s constitution 75 years ago.
They will discuss calls for substantial increases in domestic and international funding to improve health and surveillance systems, changes to governance, new approaches to the sharing of information about disease, and more equitable distribution of response tools.