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Vaccine equity needed to defeat the pandemic Sunday 21 February 2021 Caura Hospitals infection prevention and control nurse Keisha Prevatt-Gomez is one of the first frontline workers to recieve the covid19 vaccine at the Couva Hospital and Multi-Training Facility last week. - Marvin Hamilton Op-ed published by CNN co-authored by Prime Minister Dr Rowley, chairman of Caricom, and Director General of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. On Thursday, during a virtual press co...

Global public health agency seeks nearly $2 billion for covid-19 response.India expected to play key role in vaccine equity

We’ve barely made a dent in vaccinating the world against COVID-19 Kat Eschner © Provided by Popular Science SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, still has a huge reservoir of unvaccinated or partially-vaccinated people to infect. As COVID-19 vaccinations become more accessible in wealthy countries, most developing nations are still waiting for their first doses to arrive. Slow rates of global vaccinations could give the virus more time to mutate, experts say, and co...

African Union Memo Human Rights Watch (HRW) respectfully submits this brief in contribution to the African Union’s efforts to protect human rights and fundamental freedoms on the continent. The submission draws on lessons learned from HRW research and the work of the African Commission for Human and Peoples Rights (ACHPR) to promote the African Charter for Human and Peoples Rights. Human Rights Challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa Amid the global Covid-19 pandemic, 2020 has been a turbulent year ...

Author of the article: Geoffrey P. Johnston Publishing date: Feb 12, 2021  •  February 12, 2021  •  9 minute read World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus during a news briefing via video link from the WHO headquarters in Geneva on Jan. 5. Getty Images Article content “Vaccine equity is the defining challenge for 2021,” Dr. Peter Singer of the World Health Organization said. “It’s a matter of lives and livelihoods.” Singer, who serves as a spec...

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Updated: 9 Feb 2021, 18:59 THE World Health Organisations Covid-19 special envoy Dr David Nabarro has said the pandemic is “nowhere near the end”. He also warned “vaccine nationalism” and “hoarding” will slow down the global recovery from the virus, as the issue of equal access to Covid-19 jabs globally was discussed at an Oireachtas Committee today. 3 3 The issue of access to Covid-19 vaccine for low and middle-income countries was discussed at an Oireachtas Committee on Foreign A...

From moonshots to earthshots To overcome the big crises of our time, we need a mission-oriented entrepreneurial state. The Apollo programme showed how this can work NASA Read this article in German. Covid-19 has exposed the myriad weaknesses of modern capitalism. And in many countries, past cuts to social services and public health have amplified the damage wrought by the pandemic, while other self-inflicted wounds to the state have led to inadequate policy coordination ...

Failure to provide global access to Covid vaccines risks fresh outbreaks through travel or the emergence of new variants

The pandemic has created a huge opportunity to restore mission-driven governance in the public interest.