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Public health coalition urges Biden to create vaccine manufacturing operation for the world (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz) President Joe Biden, joined by Vice President Kamala Harris, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, U.S. Air Force Gen. Jacqueline Van Ovost, and U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Laura Richardson, delivers remarks during an event to announce the Presidents Combatant Commanders nominees Monday, March 8, 2021, in the East Room of the White House. A coalition of 6...

Russia offers free transfer of Covid-19 vaccine tech to India, other manufacturing partners Addressing a virtual press briefing on April 13, Dmitriev said its vaccine partnership covers 20 producers in 10 countries including Korea, China and India Joe C Mathew | April 14, 2021 | Updated 19:30 IST RDIF said its vaccine partnership covers 20 producers in 10 countries including Korea, China and India As civil society groups urge US President Joe Biden to formulate a global vaccine manufacturing p...

By The best hope for fairly distributing Covid-19 vaccines globally is at risk of failing. Heres how to save it Search Polity Note: Search is limited to the most recent 250 articles. To access earlier articles, click Advanced Search and set an earlier date range. To search for a term containing the & symbol, click Advanced Search and use the search headings and/or in first paragraph options. With... Clear Search Sponsored by Sponsored by Article Enquiry The best hope for fairly distributing C...

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The EU should back a coordinated global industrial strategy, including vaccine production facilities across the world, otherwise China will plug the gap. That means challenging private-sector patent monopolies.

Opening Ceremony of the High-level virtual Conference on expanding Africa’s vaccine manufacturing for health security Format Your Excellency President Felix Tshisekedi, Your Excellency President Cyril Ramaphosa, Your Excellency President Paul Kagame, Your Excellency [President] Moussa Faki Mahamat, Excellencies, distinguished guests, dear colleagues and friends, Good afternoon and thank you so much for the opportunity to share a few reflections with you today. The development, approval and ro...

How Bill Gates Impeded Global Access to Covid Vaccines Through his hallowed foundation, the world’s de facto public health czar has been a stalwart defender of monopoly medicine. Illustration by Kelsey Dake On February 11, 2020, public health and infectious disease experts gathered by the hundreds at the World Health Organization’s Geneva mothership. The official pronouncement of a pandemic was still a month out, but the agency’s international brain trust knew enough to be worried. Burden...

Cop26: ‘Obscene’ vaccine inequality led to Greta Thunberg exit Date: 9 April 2021 Vaccine campaigners have said Greta Thunberg is “absolutely right” to condemn an uneven distribution of vaccines preventing low and middle income countries from participating in COP26 on equal terms. The Swedish climate campaigner said she will not attend the Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow this November. Countries like the UK should “step up” and support waiving patents on Covid-19 vaccinations, as th...

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus MOSCOW – Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the head of the World Health Organisation said Tuesday it was a “travesty” that some countries still did not have enough vaccines to give to health workers and other at-risk groups, according to Sputnik. “Scaling up production and equitable distribution remains the major barrier to ending the acute stage of the COVID-19 pandemic. It is a travesty that in some countries health workers and those at-risk groups remain complete...

Failure to vaccinate globally could cost up to $2,000 per person this year in rich nations Format Rich countries hold key to leaders’ chances at World Bank/IMF meetings of halting pandemic and averting a $9 trillion catastrophe Rich countries must open the way to cheaper mass-produced COVID-19 vaccines in order to protect every person in the world and avert a $9 trillion “worst case” global economic catastrophe, said Oxfam today. They should also agree this week to inject $650 billion mor...