USG op-ed: Expanding vaccine access and humanitarian financing should be urgent objectives.
Title USG op-ed: Expanding vaccine access and humanitarian financing should be urgent objectives for the World Bank and IMF
05 May 2021
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A man receives a COVID-19 vaccine in Banadir Hospital, Mogadishu, Somalia, 23 March 2021. © WHO Somalia/Ismail Taxta
The following op-ed, written by the President of the Center for Global Development, Masood Ahmed, and the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mark Lowcock, was published online by the Center for Global Development:
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