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Related media - Associated media Low-income nations, including those in Africa, want to be rewarded for information with rapid and equitable access to developed tests, vaccines and treatments. They also asked pharmaceutical manufacturers to share information that would enable local companies to produce the products at low cost. “We don’t want to see Western countries coming and harvesting pathogens, working with pathogens, producing medicines, producing vaccines, without returning these benefits to us,” Dr. Kaseya said. Member countries have only ever agreed on one other health treaty, the 2003 Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, which strengthened control of the tobacco industry…
