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31 Jan: WHO declares a public health emergency of international concern

11 March: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of WHO, declares COVID-19 a pandemic

May: WHA gives the mandate to the DG to evaluate the international health response to Covid-19 and an independent panel was set up

Oct: India and South Africa bring proposal to WHO to suspend IPR on Covid-19 technologies, the TRIPS waiver

Nov: WHA Special Session mandate for strengthening IHR

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Jan: EB mandate for working group on sustainable financing. PSI statement

Jan: G20 HLIP on global health financing

May: WHA ... PSI statement

Oct: G20 creates a joint finance and health task force

Nov: WHA Special session creates INB to draft Pandemic Treaty. PSI statement

Nov: WTO ministerial is postponed due to omicron variant outbreak. PSI statement

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Jan: WHO EB ... PSI statement

INB1 meets in Feb and elects chairs

INB1 meets in March and adopts method of work,timeline, modalities of engagement with CSO

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INB public hearing 1 on what should be included

PSI’s demands towards the content of the pandemic treaty.

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WHA approves processes

PSI joint statement: https://publicservices.international/resources/news/human-resources-for-health?id=13062&lang=en

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- INB1 meets to consider the outcomes of the public hearing.

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WTO Ministerial fails to deliver on the TRIPS waiver. PSI statement.

INB2 draft annotated outline to be discussed in July is released

Actions on world health day (7 April) and public services day (23 June) to highlight the importance of building on the experience of health and care workers in crafting the new international instrument.

INB2 legally binding probably under Art19 (first working draft and options on legal nature)

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Informal focused consultations

Bought the voice of health workers to the forefront with video interventions from nine affiliates from all continents calling for our demands

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15 Nov: Release of Conceptual zero draft

We supported our affiliates in advocacy efforts to call on their governments to include decent work for health and care workers in the pandemic treaty.

5-7 Dec: INB3 reviews conceptual zero draft

WHO Secretariat report to INB3 acknowledges the inputs from PSI affiliates "23. Numerous submissions called for recognition that health workers are the backbone of health systems and therefore essential to building resilient health systems that are crisis responsive. Speakers
noted that a trained and equipped health workforce, as well as protection, recruitment and remuneration
were central to a future pandemic response. It was proposed that this should be achieved through better
working conditions, personal protective equipment, long-term employment benefits, and a living wage,
with the aim of maintaining quality public health service delivery."

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The Committee met for the 6th time to conclude its efforts on the IHR amendments and finalize its report to the WHO Director General and for consideration of the Working Group on IHR Amendments.

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Jan 30 - Feb 7, 2023: Executive Board, 152nd session 

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Jan 30 - Feb 7, 2023: Executive Board, 152nd session 

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- PSI statement: https://publicservices.international/resources/news/put-public-health-ahead-of-private-profits-psi-tells-who?id=12661&lang=en

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1 Feb 2023: Release of zero draft (English)

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1 Feb 2023: Release of zero draft (English)

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The Bureau released an advance English version of the zero draft for the consideration of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body at its fourth meeting.

We call on our affiliates to keep their advocacy efforts to concretise and strengthen initial gains that resulted from their contributions and fill substantial gaps that remain

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The Report of the IHR Review Committee was published in English for consideration at the second meeting of the WGIHR.

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Feb 20-24, 2023: Working Group on IHR Amendments #2

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Feb 20-24, 2023: Working Group on IHR Amendments #2

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The second meeting of the WGIHR was held. According to the meeting report the Secretariat agreed to prepare a reference document, comparing the proposed amendments and the related technical recommendations made by the Review Committee. Additionally the Working Group agreed to include a sixth meeting of the Working Group on 7–8 December 2023.

It was reiterated that both WGIHR and INB Bureaus agree to ensure alignment and consistency and avoid unnecessary duplication and overlap.

There was general support for the proposed groupings of the proposed amendments and the three groups of proposed amendments to be considered at the third meeting of the WGIHR.

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The fourth meeting of the INB was held from 27 February to 3 March 2023 in a hybrid format. According to the meeting report, the INB agreed to the proposal by the Bureau regarding the modalities including that the fourth and fifth meetings of the INB were considered as an integrated set, with both focusing on Member State discussions and negotiations.

It was clarified that there would be a single deadline for textual proposals no later than close of business on 14 April 2023.

It was further agreed that the Bureau, with support from the Secretariat, would organize informal intersessional work between INB4 and INB5, with the participation of relevant stakeholders, on matters related to Article 1, Chapter III, Article 18, and Article 4.8.

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MARCH 22, 2023: INB Intersessional Briefing 3
The third INB intersessional briefing focused on the topic of Article 10. WHO Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing System, with the Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Framework as an example (concept note).
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MARCH 20, 2023: INB Intersessional Briefing 2
The second INB intersessional briefing focused on the topic of access to technology: promoting sustainable and equitably distributed production and transfer of technology and know-how (concept note).
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MARCH 17, 2023: INB Intersessional Briefing 1
The first INB intersessional briefing focused on two topics: Article 6. Predictable global supply chain and logistics network and Article 18. One Health and the Quadripartite (concept note).

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INB5 review of zero draft