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Access to COVID-19 vaccines: Global approaches in a global crisis ╳ Abstract Following the extraordinarily rapid development of COVID‑19 vaccines, immunisation is underway in many OECD countries. However, demand will continue to outstrip supply for some time and currently, distribution is strongly skewed in favour of high-income countries. This both inequitable and inefficient. Directing vaccine to where need is greatest would maximise the number of lives saved and speed bringing the pandem...

Best hope for fairly distributing COVID-19 vaccines globally at risk COVAX’s aim of delivering 2 billion doses to participating countries by the end of 2021 is threatened by chronic under-investment, vaccine nationalism and export restrictions. 4 min read COVAX, the global initiative to coordinate the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines in an equitable way, is crucial for bringing the pandemic under control. But COVAX’s aim of delivering 2 billion doses to participating countr...

We cannot forget the millions without access to vaccines  With low-income countries lagging far behind in Covid-19 vaccine rollout, it is vital we do not forget the millions of people for whom the vaccines are still beyond reach A woman is tested for coronavirus at a clinic in Johannesburg. Picture: AP/Themba Hadebe Thu, 15 Apr, 2021 - 21:07 Dr. Enida Friel As Ireland celebrates reaching the important milestone of administering 1m doses of Covid-19 vaccines, it is vital we do not forget the m...

President Biden, support a people’s vaccine Apr 17,2021 - Last updated at Apr 17,2021 By Gordon Brown, Helen Clarck, Richard J. Roberts and Joseph E. Stiglitz Dear President Biden, We, the undersigned former heads of state and government and Nobel laureates, are gravely concerned by the slow progress in scaling up global COVID-19 vaccine access and inoculation in low- and middle-income countries. Over the past year, the world witnessed unprecedentedly rapid development of safe and effective v...

Rich countries are now stockpiling vaccines that they have grabbed but are unable to distribute. 2 hours ago Senior citizens wait to receive a Covid-19 coronavirus vaccine at the Rajawadi hospital in Mumbai on March 3. | Punit Paranjpe / AFP The Covid-19 pandemic has been unusual in several ways: the disproportionate extent to which people in rich countries (particularly in Europe and North America) have been affected; the sheer scale of the policy response for containm...

by Tyler Durden Wednesday, Apr 14, 2021 - 11:20 PM A few weeks ago, when President Biden held his first press conference since taking office, he promised that 200 million adults will have received at least one vaccine jab by the time his first 100 days have finished - a doubling of his initial target of 100M. Yet, in close to 130 countries, representing a population of 2.5 billion people, not a single adult has received a dose. The reasons why can be traced back to one man: Bill Gates. Gates ha...

Nobel Laureates, Ex-World Leaders Urge Biden to Back WTO Waiver for Vaccines Protesters picket outside Johnson & Johnson offices during the "Global Day of Action for a Peoples Vaccine" on March 11, 2021, in Cape Town, South Africa. Brenton Geach / Gallo Images via Getty Images By Reading List Calling on U.S. President Joe Biden to prioritize human need over corporate greed, more than 170 Nobel laureates and former heads of state and government on Wednesday sent an open letter urging him to bac...

An international coalition of 250 civil society groups on Tuesday urged the head of the World Trade Organization to embrace a temporary suspension of coronavirus vaccine-related patents, warning against pursuit of a voluntary approach that would keep life-saving technology under the total control of pharmaceutical corporations—and entrench massive global inequities. The coalitions demand came as WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was set to hold a closed-door meeting Wednesday with majo...

Former world leaders call on Biden to waive COVID vaccine patents ANI | Updated: Apr 15, 2021 13:25 IST London [UK], April 15 (ANI): More than 170 former world leaders and Nobel laureates are calling on United States President Joe Biden to make COVID-19 vaccines more readily available by waiving US intellectual property rules. In an open letter shared by Oxfam on Wednesday, the signatories also urged Biden to support a proposal spearheaded by South Africa a...

US President Joe Biden. | Mandel Ngan/ AFP A group of over 170 world leaders and Nobel Prize winners have urged United States President Joe Biden to support a waiver proposing to suspend rules of intellectual property rights for Covid-19 vaccines and treatments to boost global vaccination rates. India and South Africa had moved this proposal at the World Trade Organization in October. The letter, released to the media on Wednesday, said that the World Trade Organization’s w...