Equity in the pandemic treaty : access and benefit-sharing as a policy device or a rhetorical device?

Hampton, Abbie-Rose and Eccleston-Turner, Mark and Rourke, Michelle and Switzer, Stephanie (2023) Equity in the pandemic treaty : access and benefit-sharing as a policy device or a rhetorical device? Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics, 51 (1). pp. 217-220. ISSN 1073-1105 (https://doi.org/10.1017/jme.2023.59)

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Abstract

Equity is a foundational concept for the new World Health Organization (WHO) Pandemic Treaty. WHO Member States are currently negotiating to turn this undefined concept into tangible outcomes by borrowing a policy mechanism from international environmental law: "access and benefit-sharing" (ABS).

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