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Pathogenically, not yours

Ghana joins the pushback against America First health data agreements as Africa’s negotiators try to steer policy back towards pandemic equity

Two international pandemic initiatives are in trouble due to disputes over access to vaccines and medicines in Africa. One, led by the World Health Organization (WHO), is trying to build a post-Covid 19 global consensus on the way forward; the other is Washington’s America First Global Health Strategy (AFGHS), which attempts to use some of the savings from scrapping the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to secure bilateral agreements with individual states to buy critical African health data. At the centre of the bargaining is the management and control of pathogens: the viruses and biological samples that could seed the next global pandemic.

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