The US wants countries to agree to provide information on bugs that can cause disease in exchange for remediation of problems such as HIV and Malaria, according to government documents.
The Trump administration is looking for new bilateral aid agreements with several countries, after an abrupt withdrawal from existing arrangements at the beginning of this year. The agreements became part of a new one Global Health’s first health strategy announced in September.
A draft template has been seen by the Guardian, which can be used for memoranda of understanding with countries like monetization systems, and health records and health records.
It suggests that countries are expected to gradually get funding in these areas themselves over the course of the five-year agreement.
In return, it comes with conditions that require countries to share biological specifics and strategies that contain potential “with the US, within days of their introduction.
The move risks undermining global efforts to bring a new pandemic agreement to bear and ensure countries get equal access to vaccines, treatments and diagnostics, advocates say.
A Comprehensive Sharing-Sharing Agreement – expressed as a 25-year commitment – is also mentioned, the memorandum says, but there is no mention of recipient countries receiving access to developed medicines.
Access to those benefits proved a key factor in the negotiations for the pandemic agreement, which arrived earlier this year, governing how the world responds to outbreaks. Developing countries fear a repeat of the Covid-19 pandemic as they struggle to access vaccines and available medicines.
A decision on that element of the pandemic pandemic – a “pathogen access and benefit sharing” The system will create an annex to the main agreement, but must be placed before the agreement opens for signatures.
The draft memorandum and accompanying technical guidance also suggest that countries are expected to recognize the approval of US drugs as having “multiple domestic markets [or] Other strategic factors “.
The news of the draft US memorandum broke as representatives of the country and civil society gathered in Geneva for talks in the proposed TABS system.
Michel Kazathatkine, for the independent panel for the preparation of the pandemic and response, “In our view, these are bilateral organizations in the world and the foundations of unity and reason that we are trying to build here.
“The template offers no guarantee of access to countermeasures and gives commercial rule to a country. It threatens health security, health security, Data Security and, finally, national sovereignty.”
In a statement, the national prosecution action said: “We want to underline the importance of this multilateral process and invest in a system that will last, in countries that will unite.
“The origin story of these negotiations brings us here: every country that fights for itself becomes a race at the bottom – and those who suffer are the weakest.”