Special WHA Focus: Among key issues CVEP is tracking includes WHA on the Pandemic Influenza Preparedness (PIP) Framework addressing “sharing of influenza viruses and access to vaccines and other benefits from base documents: A64/8 and  A64/8 Corr.1  As reported in the WHA Journal: N° 6 21 May 2011: http://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA64/A64_JOUR6-en.pdf
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Eighth meeting of Committee A
Chairman: Dr Walid Ammar (Lebanon)
– – Draft third report of Committee A
The Chairman opened the meeting and called upon the Rapporteur (Dr-Mast Kulzhanov [Kazakhstan]) to read out the third draft report of Committee A, document (draft) A64/57 containing one resolution entitled: − Pandemic influenza preparedness: sharing of influenza viruses and access to vaccines and other benefits
The resolution http://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA64/A64_57Draft-en.pdf was approved and the first report of the Committee was adopted.
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[Editor’s Note: At the recent symposium Global Vaccins 202X: Access, Equity, Ethics, 2-4 May 2011, an update on details and open issues associated with the PIP Framework was presented by Michael Watson, sanofi pasteur, and Chair IFPMA Biotherapeutics & Vaccines Committee. The video is available here: Part I, Part II ]