Gert van der Hoek
In Memoriam - Editor, Senior Moderator
press release Min of Health Indonesia:
Accepted and Legalized Indonesian Concepts into Resolution of 60th WHA
29 May 2007
Indonesian concept of "Virus Sharing Mechanism which is transparent, fair and advantageous to developing countries (Pandemic Influenza Preparedness: Sharing of Influenza Viruses and Access to Vaccine and Other Benefits)" finally was taken by acclamation to be accepted and legalized into Resolution of 60th World Health Assembly (WHA) in plenary session on May 23, 2007 in Geneva, Swiss. WHA is the highest WHO decision-maker which unites and would be obeyed by all WHO members.
The resolution is supposed to encourage International countries to build mechanism of transparent, fair and benefit sample sharing for developing countries. The previous efforts, pioneered by Indonesia in High-Level Meeting on Responsible Practices for Sharing Avian Influenza Viruses and Resulting Benefits at Jakarta on March 26-28, 2007, finally gets supports on 60th WHA which was attended by 193 members.
It is quoted from statement of Minister of Health, Dr. dr. Siti Fadilah Supari, Sp.JP(K), in press conference on May 26, 2007 at Jakarta , returning from Geneva .
Moreover, it cannot be successfully done without hard efforts of Indonesian government and health ministry personnel in collecting supports from other countries, not to mention all parties supporting it. Full supports do not only come from 23 countries that sign written statement supporting resolution draft of Republic of Indonesia (generally are developing countries) but also from developed countries, i.e. European Union, Japan and Australia.
Through the legalized resolution, it is supposed that in the future there will be guarantee that cooperation of virus sharing can give optimal benefits to developing countries as well as respected sovereignty and national dignity of origin countries having give contribution to global efforts in controlling threat of influenza pandemic.
Through resolution discussed in difficult 12 sessions of working group and Committee A, WHO countries agree to commit basic changes toward Global Influenza Surveillance Network (GISN), which according to minister of health is not transparent and fair for 50 years. They agree on efforts to complete sharing standards and requirements of any biological matters, consisted of and come from influenza virus, among origin countries, WHO Collaborating Centers and other parties, to fix Terms of Reference (TOR) of WHO Collaborating Centers and to review all related documents based on trust and transparency.
They also agree to build framework and management of utilization and benefits fairly and equally, includes access to vaccine, affordable price, development of developing countries capacity, especially vaccine research, technology, and production as well as vaccine distribution and stockpiling prioritizing developing countries
In arranging those framework and mechanism, WHO members agree on Inter-Governmental Meeting attended by all WHO members on October 2007. It would previously be begun with Inter-Disciplinary Working Group of experts and decision-makers from some countries (4 countries for each) which discusses mechanism of virus sharing and revision of TOR WHO Collaborating Centers. On the same occasion, Director General of WHO will make study of mechanism for benefit sharing as contribution for Inter-Governmental Meeting.
The resolution of virus sharing gives admission toward principles of country sovereignty on biological resources, permission to origin country and appreciation toward national regulation.
In the resolution discussion, Indonesia has proposed resolution supported by 23 co-sponsor countries, such as: Malaysia, Timor-Leste, Iran, Iraq, Cuba, Sudan, North Korea, Myanmar, Saudi Arabia, Maldives, Peru, Brunei Darussalam, Algeria, Qatar, Laos, Solomon Islands, Cambodia, Vietnam, Bhutan, Kuwait, Bolivia, Pakistan and Palestine.
During working group, concept of Indonesia has got wide approval from other developing countries, i.e. Brazil, Thailand, Kenya, China and some developed countries, especially European Union and Australia. The discussion also gets more concern from Director General of WHO, Dr. Margaret Chan and President of 60th WHA, Jane Halton, and some ministers of health which are directly participated in discussion.
The success of Indonesia in realizing the mechanism is also because of big supports and sympathy from WHO members to leadership of minister of health RI which has urged unfair GISN mechanism in any national and international forums. Minister of Health RI even has been appointed as member of WHO Executive Board. It is one chance for Indonesia to speak out and contribute actively in international to ensure realization and implementation of the mechanism related to interest of developing countries.
This year, WHA results two main resolutions; first, preparedness on influenza pandemic; second, public health, innovation and right of intellectual power. Number of the resulted resolution is the most until WHA this year. There are total 16 resolution, includes WHO management.
This information is published by Center for Public Communication, Secretariat General MOHRI. For further information, please call 021-5223002 and 52960661, or send e-mail to: puskom.publik@yahoo.co.id .
http://www.depkes.go.id/en/2905ac.htm
Accepted and Legalized Indonesian Concepts into Resolution of 60th WHA
29 May 2007
Indonesian concept of "Virus Sharing Mechanism which is transparent, fair and advantageous to developing countries (Pandemic Influenza Preparedness: Sharing of Influenza Viruses and Access to Vaccine and Other Benefits)" finally was taken by acclamation to be accepted and legalized into Resolution of 60th World Health Assembly (WHA) in plenary session on May 23, 2007 in Geneva, Swiss. WHA is the highest WHO decision-maker which unites and would be obeyed by all WHO members.
The resolution is supposed to encourage International countries to build mechanism of transparent, fair and benefit sample sharing for developing countries. The previous efforts, pioneered by Indonesia in High-Level Meeting on Responsible Practices for Sharing Avian Influenza Viruses and Resulting Benefits at Jakarta on March 26-28, 2007, finally gets supports on 60th WHA which was attended by 193 members.
It is quoted from statement of Minister of Health, Dr. dr. Siti Fadilah Supari, Sp.JP(K), in press conference on May 26, 2007 at Jakarta , returning from Geneva .
Moreover, it cannot be successfully done without hard efforts of Indonesian government and health ministry personnel in collecting supports from other countries, not to mention all parties supporting it. Full supports do not only come from 23 countries that sign written statement supporting resolution draft of Republic of Indonesia (generally are developing countries) but also from developed countries, i.e. European Union, Japan and Australia.
Through the legalized resolution, it is supposed that in the future there will be guarantee that cooperation of virus sharing can give optimal benefits to developing countries as well as respected sovereignty and national dignity of origin countries having give contribution to global efforts in controlling threat of influenza pandemic.
Through resolution discussed in difficult 12 sessions of working group and Committee A, WHO countries agree to commit basic changes toward Global Influenza Surveillance Network (GISN), which according to minister of health is not transparent and fair for 50 years. They agree on efforts to complete sharing standards and requirements of any biological matters, consisted of and come from influenza virus, among origin countries, WHO Collaborating Centers and other parties, to fix Terms of Reference (TOR) of WHO Collaborating Centers and to review all related documents based on trust and transparency.
They also agree to build framework and management of utilization and benefits fairly and equally, includes access to vaccine, affordable price, development of developing countries capacity, especially vaccine research, technology, and production as well as vaccine distribution and stockpiling prioritizing developing countries
In arranging those framework and mechanism, WHO members agree on Inter-Governmental Meeting attended by all WHO members on October 2007. It would previously be begun with Inter-Disciplinary Working Group of experts and decision-makers from some countries (4 countries for each) which discusses mechanism of virus sharing and revision of TOR WHO Collaborating Centers. On the same occasion, Director General of WHO will make study of mechanism for benefit sharing as contribution for Inter-Governmental Meeting.
The resolution of virus sharing gives admission toward principles of country sovereignty on biological resources, permission to origin country and appreciation toward national regulation.
In the resolution discussion, Indonesia has proposed resolution supported by 23 co-sponsor countries, such as: Malaysia, Timor-Leste, Iran, Iraq, Cuba, Sudan, North Korea, Myanmar, Saudi Arabia, Maldives, Peru, Brunei Darussalam, Algeria, Qatar, Laos, Solomon Islands, Cambodia, Vietnam, Bhutan, Kuwait, Bolivia, Pakistan and Palestine.
During working group, concept of Indonesia has got wide approval from other developing countries, i.e. Brazil, Thailand, Kenya, China and some developed countries, especially European Union and Australia. The discussion also gets more concern from Director General of WHO, Dr. Margaret Chan and President of 60th WHA, Jane Halton, and some ministers of health which are directly participated in discussion.
The success of Indonesia in realizing the mechanism is also because of big supports and sympathy from WHO members to leadership of minister of health RI which has urged unfair GISN mechanism in any national and international forums. Minister of Health RI even has been appointed as member of WHO Executive Board. It is one chance for Indonesia to speak out and contribute actively in international to ensure realization and implementation of the mechanism related to interest of developing countries.
This year, WHA results two main resolutions; first, preparedness on influenza pandemic; second, public health, innovation and right of intellectual power. Number of the resulted resolution is the most until WHA this year. There are total 16 resolution, includes WHO management.
This information is published by Center for Public Communication, Secretariat General MOHRI. For further information, please call 021-5223002 and 52960661, or send e-mail to: puskom.publik@yahoo.co.id .
http://www.depkes.go.id/en/2905ac.htm
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