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Donor Leverage and Access to Bird Flu Vaccines: a challenge to the World Health Organization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

G de Wildt  and
Chan Chee Khoon
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In early 2007, the Indonesian government decided to withhold its bird flu virus samples from the World Health Organisation's collaborating centres pending a new global mechanism for virus sharing that offered better terms for developing countries. In breaking with the existing practice of freely sending flu virus samples to these laboratories, Indonesia expressed dissatisfaction with a system which obliged WHO member states to share virus samples with WHO's collaborating centres, but which lacked mechanisms for equitable sharing of benefits, most importantly, affordable vaccines developed from these viral source materials.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 5 , Issue 7 , July 2007 , e16
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