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Rich countries are hoarding Covid-19 vaccines Vox.com 1/29/2021 Julia Belluz © Fred Tanneau/AFP via Getty Images Medical staff members in France bring two boxes containing Covid-19 vaccines to Ile d’Hoedic, a small island of the western coast of France on January 29. The island has approximately 100 inhabitants in the winter months. More than 80 million Covid-19 vaccine doses have been distributed around the world so far. Only 55 — 55! — have gone to people in low-income countries. In fact, just one country: Guinea. Those 55 doses in Guinea don’t even represent ...

Governments Sign Secret Vaccine Deals. Here’s What They Hide. Multibillion-dollar contracts give drug makers liability shields, patent ownership and leeway on delivery dates and pricing — and promises that much of it will not be made public. A health care worker administering the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at a nursing home in Reims, France, earlier this month.Credit...Andrea Mantovani for The New York Times BRUSSELS — When members of the European Parliament sat down this month to read the first publicly available contract for purchasing coronavirus vaccines, they noticed somethin...

NORAD Conference 2021, panel: Vaccine nationalism and global distribution NORAD Conference 2021, panel: Vaccine nationalism and global distribution Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD) 26 January 2021 Mr Bård Vegar Solhjell, Director General of Norad, Dear colleagues and friends, Good morning, and thank you for the invitation to address you today. And thank you for Norway’s support for WHO and global health, in the past year and over many years. Norway has shown outstanding leadership in its commitment to multilateralism and in supporting unprecedented efforts to de...

South Africa Is Paying Twice as Much as EU Countries for COVID-19 Vaccines It raises an important question about equity of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout. Why Global Citizens Should Care The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on the health and socio-economic development of middle- and low-income countries. The rollout of vaccines can help to combat the virus and end its negative impacts on everything from education access to gender equality. The United Nations’ Global Goal 3 calls for good health and well-being and can only be achieved if all countries have equitable access to the...

By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden's decision to join the COVAX vaccine facility could make a "huge difference" to the financin...