| Summary: | Indonesia�s decision to stop sharing its H5N1 virus samples with international public health community in 2006 has prompted serial negotiations and diplomacy. Minister of Health, Siti Fadilah Supari, made the world concerned about this exploitative system (the virus samples would be used to make vaccines by developed-countries and then be resold to developing-countries with unaffordable prices) and she demanded the new WHO rules to be better, with fairness and transparency. Indonesia has support from many developing countries who feel similar position with Indonesia. David Heymann, WHO�s Assistant Director-General for Health Security and Environment, said �For the first time in decades, developing countries are looking at the WHO with mistrust.� This is about the most important case in Global Health Diplomacy within the last decade.
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