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Reflections on Self-Publishing [2023]: Year Four, Geneva Health Files

Read, Refresh, Recuperate: Two Dozen Stories [Sep-Dec 2023]

WHO DG's Marked Shift on Intellectual Property: Cautions Against Undermining IP on Access to COVID-19 Tests & Treatments at WTO. Implications for "Equity" in Current Negotiations

Listen Now: The Geneva Health Files Interview with Fatima Hassan

WHO's Resolution by Consensus on Health and Humanitarian Access in the Palestinian Territories

Developing Countries Could Use IHR Negotiations as a Tool to Ensure Pandemic Agreement Talks Stay on Course [WG-IHR Update]

Pandemic Agreement Talks “Difficult” Amidst Polarisation, Pressure Builds for a "Lite" Accord by May 2024 sans Contentious Provisions [INB7 Update]

Pathogen Access & Benefit Sharing System: A Key to Operationalize Equity in Pandemic Preparedness & Response [GUEST ESSAY]

EXCLUSIVE: Did Some Developed Countries Oust Africa Group’s Key Negotiator, a Forceful Voice on Equity Provisions in INB-IHR Negotiations?

A Wait In Vain? The USITC Report on the WTO TRIPS Extension Decision For COVID-19 Tests & Treatments

Blindspots on the Climate Crisis in Global Health Governance

Listen Now: The Geneva Health Files Interview with Peter Sands, The Global Fund

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Want to Boost Regional Vaccine Manufacturing? Let Countries Prioritize, Ensure Tech Transfer

Not Finished Yet: Now is the Time to End Childhood Tuberculosis [GUEST ESSAY]

A Little Fairer is Not Good Enough: Why ABS Will NOT Ensure Equity [GUEST ESSAY]

"Pandemic Treaty Talks Hobbled by Inefficient Process": Negotiators. Countries Struggle Charting a Path While Also Debating Provisions

Palestine & "Unbalanced Text" Dominate Concerns of Developing Countries, Developed Countries Bristle at IP & Financing [Country Statements: INB7]

The Pandemic Accord Needs Clear Commitments on Adequate & Fair Financing for Prevention Preparedness and Response [GUEST ESSAY]

May 2024 Deadline Conditional on Meeting Demands on Equity: 29 Member States of the Equity Group

Squaring The Circle On Equity in a Pathogen Access And Benefit Sharing System [Guest Essay]

“There is really no moral, legal, justifiable ground for this level of secrecy, you need to bring the light in’’: Fatima Hassan on the Fight for Transparency of COVID-19 Vaccine Contracts

Draft Pandemic Agreement Text Does Not Bite the Bullet, Suggests Subsequent Protocols To Defer Commitments on Key Issues

The Tightrope of Scientific Inquiry, State Sovereignty and Global Health Governance in Tracing COVID-19 Origins

Push to Prioritize Prevention Over Response in the Negotiations to Amend the IHR, Developing Countries Dig Their Heels To Preserve Equity Proposals

Johnson & Johnson’s Patenting & Pricing Strategy for TB Medicine Bedaquiline: A Cautionary Tale for New TB Medicines [GUEST ESSAY]

The WTO’s Belated Efforts to Understand if Intellectual Property Hampers Access to COVID-19 Tests & Treatments [Update: Extension of TRIPS Decision]

Dissecting South Africa’s COVID-19 Vaccine Procurement Contracts & their Global Implications

Decolonizing Global Health Law By Drawing on Lessons from International Environmental Law [Guest Essay]

Message from New York to Geneva: Equity Front and Centre in PPR Negotiations

To Break Impasse In Pandemic Accord Negotiations, Bring Neutral Countries To Forge Compromise [Guest Essay]; Editorial: The Role of Journalism in Global Health Diplomacy

Global Health Negotiations in Geneva: What, Why, Who and How [An Explanatory Podcast]

The Architecture for Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness, & Response (PPPR): Views from Civil Society Leaders on the UN High Level Meetings [GUEST ESSAY]

Some Countries May Push For More Time To Conclude Negotiations For The Pandemic Accord; First Draft Likely By Mid-October

Why Universal Health Coverage must be central to Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness, Response and Recovery? [GUEST ESSAY]

Will 'Access & Benefits Sharing' Goals Trump Diluting Intellectual Property Provisions in Global Health Negotiations?

Diversifying Revenue Sources; Two Dozen Stories: May-August [GHF WRAP]

The EU On Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness And Response, In Brussels And Geneva: A Comparison

The Journey towards a Pandemic Accord: Listen to the Co-Chairs of the INB. [Voices from the Negotiations]

A moment of reckoning? Confronting racial-colonial legacies in the wake of global health emergencies [Guest Essay]

Amendments to the International Health Regulations: Voices from the Negotiations

Common but Differentiated Responsibilities: The Equity Principle Guiding Climate Change, and the Reforms for Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness & Response [Guest Essay]

IHR Amendments Discussions on Track As Countries Begin Text-Based Negotiations, Developing Countries Push for Level Playing Field for Their Proposals

“Some aspects of IHR amendments linked to, dependent on, where the INB process finishes. Need for us to remain in step until May 2024”: WG-IHR Co-Chairs Asiri & Bloomfield

Decisive Discussions on Definition, Declaration of a Pandemic; Developed Countries’ Push to Park Access to Countermeasures in the INB? [Update from the Joint Session of INB-WGIHR]

Formal Vs Informal Sessions: The Politics to Get Provisions In or Out? [Update INB6 Pandemic Accord]

"It can’t be that a WHO Accord is silent on equity": INB Co-Chairs Matsoso & Driece

Tight Timelines & Tough Choices: Developing Countries Push Back on the Risk of Exclusion From Negotiations In Informal Sessions [Pandemic Accord Update From INB6]

“Some aspects of innovative finance are dressed up to be what they are not": Peter Sands, The Global Fund

[Update] Intersessional Consultations on the Pandemic Accord: Countries Wrestle On Thorny Issues, The Fight is on To Get Text In

“Rights Require Resources, But Resources Require Rights As Well”: Attiya Waris, UN Independent Expert on foreign debt, other international financial obligations and human rights

Independent Assessment & Governance Committees: Addressing Accountability and Governance in a Pandemic Accord [Guest Essay]

EXCLUSIVE: WHO Medical Countermeasures Platform Takes Route from New York to Geneva [UNGA-PPR Text]

“WHO member states must ask for exceptions in the U.S. sanctions to allow Cuban biotech to work, both for Cuba and the world”: The Files Interview

Countries Take a Stab At Difficult Provisions in Bureau's Text This Week: Pandemic Accord Discussions

Building Effective Coalitions for the Pandemic Accord: Insights from the Negotiations of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control [Guest Essay]

UNGA's PPPR Zero Draft Defers to WHO; Pandemic Accord Talks: Countries to Decide Next Week Whether to Talk Tough Now or Pick "Low-Hanging Fruits" First?

Human Rights Challenges in the Pandemic Treaty Negotiations [Guest Essay]

Bureau’s Text: Weaker Language on Public Funding Disclosures, Intellectual Property Waivers, but Leaves Door Open For Pooling of Tech, Recognition of Differentiated Responsibilities & Debt Relief

The Remaking of WHO Finances: WHO Could Become the First UN Agency to go the Replenishment Way; Countries Assert Their Role In Defining Health Emergencies Architecture

The U.S. allegedly threatened to withhold funding from WHO unless its text on “earmarking” contributions was agreed to in the decision on the replenishment proposal

Medical Countermeasures Platform will be Pitched to Countries Next Week. Inadequate Consultations, Squeamish about IP, Activists Say [#WHA76 PRIMER]

A Watershed for WHO finances & governance? WHO Investment Rounds: A Replenishment Approach [WHA76 Primer]

Need for Accountability, Equity & Cooperation Dominate UNGA hearings on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness, and Response

The Future of Multilateralism in Global Health

Fear-Mongering on Threatened Incentives to Innovation Dominate US-ITC Hearings, Activists Pick Apart Narratives [Update: WTO Waiver Extension Decision for COVID-19 Drugs & Tests]

Geneva Health Files Summer Fellows 2023

Geneva Health Files Completes Three Years!

Pathogen Access And Benefits Sharing: The Fulcrum On Which Equity Objectives Rest?

The Coming of Age of Global Health Podcasts

EXCLUSIVE: Countries Split Between Retaining Existing Scope on Surveillance Vs Widening Commitments On Equity in the Amendments to IHR [WG-IHR3 Update]

Strengthening Primary Health Care to Achieve Universal Health Coverage: a Tunisian Perspective

A WHO-Managed Financial Mechanism to Address Equity In Health Emergency Preparedness And Response: A Realistic Opportunity?

Difficult Negotiations, But Countries Win More Time to Suggest Language to the Zero Draft, Fight Back Efforts to Slow Process [INB5 WRAP]

Towards Meaningful Country-Level Engagement on the Pandemic Treaty: A Canadian Perspective [Guest Essay]

Price Caps, Tiered Pricing, Stockpiling, in the EU's Textual Proposals for Pandemic Accord. Its Imprint on the WHO Medical Countermeasures Platform

The Access To Medical Countermeasures – The Lynchpin in the Reforms to the Governance of Health Emergencies

Suspended in Time: WTO TRIPS Extension Decision to COVID-19 Tests & Treatments

Is There a Case for “Common but Differentiated Responsibility” in Global Health?

Civil Society in Pandemic Accord Negotiations – Lessons from The Framework Convention On Tobacco Control

Pandemic Accord Negotiations: Away from Public Glare, but Center of Attention

Quo Vadis Pandemic Fund? [Guest Essay]

Global Health Negotiations Kick Off In Geneva - Amendments to the IHR

A New Medical Countermeasures Platform for Equitable Access: Implications for On-Going Negotiations

Choice Facing Countries: Expand Scope Or Preserve Core Functions? [Amendments to the International Health Regulations]

Bridging climate and global health negotiations [Guest Essay]

The Zero Draft of the Pandemic Accord: A Discursive Journey into Equity

Countries Seek Tighter Control on Shaping Emergencies Governance & WHO Financing [EB152]

The Systematic Edging out of Civil Society in WHO Governing Body Meetings [Guest Essay]

A Resolution on Diagnostics at The WHO Executive Board: A Test for Equity?

[EB152 Special]: WHO on the Replenishment Bandwagon; Proposals to Reform the Executive Board

Towards a Definition of a Pandemic in WHO's Pandemic Accord

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