The Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing (PABS) annex to the WHO Pandemic Agreement is the last remaining piece of the puzzle of the many initiatives that WHO and our Member States have established in response to the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Over the past few years, WHO has taken several steps to make the world safer from future emergencies and pandemics including strengthening capacity for local production of vaccines and other tools, through the mRNA Technology Transfer Programme, based in South Africa, and the WHO Biomanufacturing Workforce Training Initiative, based in the Republic of Korea.
My statement at the press conference with @ACANU_Geneva: www.who.int/news-room/speeches/item/who-di...