Is the EU–Africa innovation plan toothless?
Meaningful investment might be essential for fixing power imbalances in science and innovation. Meaningful investment might be essential for fixing power imbalances in science and innovation.
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Meaningful investment might be essential for fixing power imbalances in science and innovation. Meaningful investment might be essential for fixing power imbalances in science and innovation.
For the Pandemic Accord to be effective, member states must urgently focus negotiations to define its scope, including its definition of “pandemic,” and ensure the definition avoids the pitfalls of past mistakes, argue Noor Shakfeh, Fifa Rahman, and Katri Bertram Member states of the Intergovernmental Negotiation Body (INB)1 have roughly nine months left before they need to present a draft outcome to the World Health Assembly in May 2024. While their negotiations to date have understandably focused on provisions related to access and benefit-sharing, and distribution of countermeasures, th...
‘It is high time countries took urgent, extraordinary actions towards a just & inclusive recovery’
Most Africans could not get a COVID-19 test unless they were hospitalised or could afford to pay a private laboratory for a pricey test – yet rapid tests were
Low vaccination rates in poorer countries have little to do with so-called “vaccine hesitancy” according to a study that examined access to COVID-19 tools across 14 low-income countries.