The WHO Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Framework
- 13 July 2011
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA)
- Vol. 306 (2), 200-201
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2011.960
Abstract
After years of negotiations, the World Health Organization (WHO) reached agreement on a pandemic influenza preparedness (PIP) framework for the sharing of influenza viruses and access to vaccines and other benefits in April 2011.1 The framework addresses a troubling controversy—should low- and middle-income countries share influenza virus specimens with WHO without assurances that benefits derived from sharing will be equitably distributed?Keywords
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