Enshrining Inequity is Immoral: Vote No on the Pandemic Agreement, says AHF

As the final stage of negotiations of the World Health Organization (WHO) Pandemic Agreement nears conclusion, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation voices major concerns about the latest Proposal for the Agreement. The current best-case scenario in the most recent text will require that 20% of pandemic-related health products be “made available for use on the basis of public health risk and need. This is grossly insufficient because it leaves 80% of critical vaccines, treatments, and diagnostics inaccessible to LMICs which comprise approximately 85% of the world’s population. The world-leading scientific journal, The Lancet, has described this proposal as “shameful, unjust and inequitable.”