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Civil society organisations across Africa call for protection from coronavirus to be a global public good, freely and fairly available to all Covid-19 has killed over a hundred thousand people across Africa, decimated African economies, and pushed millions of people into poverty and hunger with no end in sight unless there is a shift to ensure immediate full access to vaccines. The virus has profoundly exploited existing inequalities, disproportionately affecting frontline healthcare and other ...

SADC’s silence on access to Covid-19 vaccines is too loud 11 Mar 2021 All people living in Southern Africa need equitable vaccine access. Time is short and our people are dying, so the regional body should act fast. (Photo by Luke Dray/Getty Images) Since the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the Covid-19 outbreak a pandemic a year ago, the Southern African Development Community (SADC), comprising 16 countries in the sub-region, has taken a reasonably active role in providing informati...

Amnesty International calls for equality in vaccination access By TPN/Lusa, in COVID-19, News · 11-03-2021 18:57:00 · 1 Comments Amnesty International (AI) on 11 March launches a new global campaign to call for universal access to vaccines against covid-19, now limited to a small group of countries, and for pharmaceutical compan...

The Weekly Whip - Lords edition! Welcome to the Lords edition of the Weekly Whip, covering the goings on in the Upper Chamber in the last week, and a taste of what’s to come in the week to follow. By Humphrey Amos, Mar 05, 2021 1:03 In the Lords we get to grips with the detail of legislation and improve it; we take part in debates on a whole range of issues, and we question and hold government ministers to account. For up to date information about the work of the Lib Dem group in the Lords,...

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. Since 2020, South Africa has become the world’s champion in the call for equitable access to Covid-19 vaccines. On multilateral platforms, the government has been clear in its call for equitable and universal access to Covid-19 medical products and treatments — not only for South Africa, but for the rest of the continent too. The government has, at least in its rhetoric at high-level political gatherings, spoken out against vaccine nationalism and challenged the historically dominant powe...

The head of the World Health Organization warned that global inequalities in vaccination could come back to haunt us.

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News of the blockage of a shipment of 250,000 COVID-19 vaccines from Europe to Australia has caused concern and outrage. But to avoid these types of shortfalls in future, it's important to address the underlying problems, writes Deborah Gleeson.

Italy's decision to block export of AstraZeneca vaccines to Australia will likely not impact our vaccine roll-out. But vaccine scarcity is a looming problem in other parts of the world.