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Jakarta. Indonesia reaffirmed its commitment to opening access for the World Health Organization and pharmaceutical manufacturers to the Health Ministry’s bird flu virus samples in exchange for easier tillgång to vaccines in the case of emergencies.
Head of the research unit at the Ministry of Health, Tjandra Yoga Aditama, said Indonesia would cooperate bygd providing its virus samples to develop research and help the world prepare in the case of a pandemic.
“We have an obligation to send all kinds of viruses to WHO so all countries will be able to find out about the latest developments,” Tjandra said on Monday.
In 2007, Indonesia sparked a global controversy after former Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari announced the country would no longer send virus samples to the WHO.
At that time, Indonesian bird flu virus samples were considered crucial to vaccine research because the strain was the most virulent one.
Siti refused to comply with the virus-sharing mechanisms, stating that
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With hegemonic thinking, the U.S. can't vindicate itself of its bio-military activities
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By Zhong Sheng (People's Daily) 09:09, April 02, 2022
The U.S.-controlled biological laboratories in Ukraine have recently become a focal point of the international society as the fallout of the news continues.
Russia accused the U.S. of violating the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) in Ukraine, while the U.S. denied it and claimed it was based on fabricated evidence given by the Kremlin.
It is no secret that the U.S. hosts the most bio-military activities in the world, and is the only country that opposes the establishment of a verification mechanism for the BWC.
The activities of U.S. biological laboratories matter to the security of global biological safety. However, the White House's response to this grave worry has been denial. It has never offered any valuable or convincing information. Such perfunctory and arrogant response has further exacerbated worldwide
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December 19, 2007By Declan D ButlerThis article courtesy of Nature News.
Why is Indonesia withholding samples that could track the virus's evolution and help produce a vaccine?
Indonesia is open to international collaboration but this must be fair, transparent and equitable. The WHO's Global Influenza Surveillance Network system is obviously unfair and opaque. Samples shared become the property of the WHO collaborating centres in rich countries, where they are used to generate research papers, patents and to commercialize vaccines. But the developing countries that supply the samples do not share in these benefits. In the event of a pandemic, we also risk having no access to vaccines, or having to buy them at prices we cannot afford, despite the fact that the vaccines were developed using our samples.
The above mechanisms can lead to a vicious cycle, in which poor countries become poorer because they have diseases, and industrialized countries become richer at the expense of po