Stefan Elbe

TL;DR: The article finds that the Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data contributes to global health in at least five ways: collating the most complete repository of high‐quality influenza data in the world; facilitating the rapid sharing of potentially pandemic virus information during recent outbreaks; supporting the World Health Organization's biannual seasonal flu vaccine strain selection process; developing informal mechanisms for conflict resolution around the sharing of virus data.

TL;DR: The authors argued that the global AIDS pandemic should not be framed as a security issue, but rather as an ethical dilemma, and that raising awareness of its presence does allow policy makers, activists, and scholars to begin drawing the links between HIV/AIDS and security in ways that at least minimize some of these dangers.

TL;DR: Since the discovery of AIDS more than two decades ago, 60 million people have been infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, and more than 20 million have died from AIDS-related illnesses as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The securitized global response to H5N1 ended up unexpectedly entangling the long-standing international virus-sharing mechanism within a wider set of political disputes, as well as prompting governments to subject existing virus- sharing arrangements to much narrower calculations of national interest.

TL;DR: There are three policy components to the problem of antimicrobials – ensuring access, conservation and innovation – and the right mix of options needs to be matched with an effective forum and may need to be supported by an international legal framework.