How Trump is leveraging aid to access Africa’s pathogen data

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Five years after Covid-19, the US is leveraging health agreements with African countries to access pathogen data, raising questions about equitable benefit sharing. These agreements have sparked debates on data sovereignty and global health strategy.

The data flowed freely. Vaccines far less so. Five years after Covid-19, the health agreements negotiated by the US with several African countries have reopened the debate over sharing the benefits derived from pathogen data, which has become a strategic resource for global health. An analysis with infographics.