A pandemic agreement is within reach

As we enter this final week of negotiations, equity is both an ethical imperative and fundamental to accurate, representative, and actionable pandemic science.

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INB9+ Recap: Day 2 🚨
Pandemic Action Network is on the ground with partners as #INB pandemic agreement negotiations continue. Thread below on the facts + highlights of the day.

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Photo op ✅
Statement ✅
Action ?

Now it's time for all World Bank IDA - World Bank governors to put their 💷💵💶💴where their mouths are to make #1DA21 bigger and better to drive equitable progress for people + planet.

Read + share our call to action: bit.ly/4b3lVyQ

Important thread. would add “mutually agreed terms” is entirely inappropriate for pandemic tech transfer because a) it’s corporations actually deciding not to share and they simply refuse all terms b) countries needing tech have no leverage to trade. Terrible basis to fight virus

Professor Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH of the Pandemic Center at Brown School of Public Health is concerned about the current risks H5N1 poses for farmworkers.

“I fear that we’re putting all our attention on the future threat and we’re just completely ignoring the one right in front of us,” she says. politico.com/news/2024/04/2…

INB9+ Recap: Day 1 🚨
Pandemic Action Network is on the ground with partners as #INB pandemic agreement negotiations resumed in Geneva today. Thread below on the facts + highlights of the day.

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📢Want to know what's happening with the #PandemicAgreement negotiations in Geneva? Our brilliant partne Nina Schwalbe breaks it down:

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The #IDA21 NAIROBI Summit is a wrap with strong statements from African leaders on why a historic #IDA21 replenishment is critical for Africa. 🌍

Now it's time to move from words to action. Check out the call by Pandemic Action Network + partners to world leaders:

👇👇👇 Kerry Cullinan Nina Schwalbe Jenny Lei Ravelo Mike Ryan Lawrence Gostin Assistant Secretary Loyce Pace Joy Phumaphi Eloise Todd Aggrey Aluso

🦅🦅 Must read on bird flu via @NYTOpinion ⁦zeynep tufekci⁩ nytimes.com/2024/04/24/opi…

Immunization has saved six lives a minute. Every minute. For five decades.

Let’s not stop now. Speak up and tell leaders it’s time for immunization for all.

Let’s show the world what’s #HumanlyPossible

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😷🏥Packed house in World Bank atrium as WBG President Ajay Banga and World Health Organization (WHO) DG Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and health + finance ministers discuss the importance of scaling up investments in
#UHC #HealthforAll to reach the #SDGs #InvestinHealth #SpringMeetings2024

It may be summer outside, but so happy to be inside Center for Global Development to see one of my favorite people: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala WTO #ngozifangirl #CGDTalks