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UNAIDS disclosed this in
a report titled, ‘Confronting Inequalities: Lessons for Pandemic Responses from 40 Years of AIDS’, which was released on Wednesday.
According to the report, developing countries have been at a disadvantage over access to COVID-19 vaccines, as rich countries have monopolised access.
“COVID-19 vaccines that could save millions of lives trickle into developing
countries as new waves of infections threaten to overwhelm their under-financed health systems. At the end of June 2021, just 1% of people in low-income countries and 11% in lower-middle-income countries had received at least one dose of a potentially life-saving COVID-19 vaccine, compared to 46% in high income countries,” the report reads.