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The global approach to vaccine equity is failing: additional steps that would help

The global approach to vaccine equity is failing: additional steps that would help

ACCUSATIONS abound of vaccine nationalism against states that stockpile vaccines and of vaccine apartheid, as COVID-19 vaccines become concentrated in rich countries. Calls for vaccine equity or justice demand vaccine allocation on account of need, based on the idea that no one is safe until everyone is safe. ERIN HANNAH, Department Chair/Associate Professor of Political Science, King's University College, Western University JAMES SCOTT, Senior Lecturer in International Politics, King's College London SILKE TROMMER, Senior Lecturer Politics , University of Manchester SOPHIE HARMAN, Professor of International Politics, Queen Mary University of London At stake is our ability to ensure an end…
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New WTO head’s warning on ‘vaccine nationalism’

New WTO head’s warning on ‘vaccine nationalism’

ANDREA SHALAL THE World Trade Organization's incoming chief has warned against "vaccine nationalism' that would slow progress in ending the COVID-19 pandemic and could erode economic growth for all countries - rich and poor. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala told Reuters her top priority was to ensure the WTO does more to address the pandemic, saying members should accelerate efforts to lift export restrictions slowing trade in needed medicines and supplies. The former Nigerian finance minister and senior World Bank executive was appointed yesterday in a consensus process and starts her new job on March 1. "The WTO can contribute so much more…
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OPINION: The world must pull together on COVID-19 vaccine for all

OPINION: The world must pull together on COVID-19 vaccine for all

MUKHTAR KARIM LAST week WHO Director Tedros Adhanom railed against ‘vaccine nationalism’, warning that ‘going it alone will perpetuate the economic and health crisis for all’. If history is any guide, he is right: if and when a vaccine is available, its effects will be limited to the world’s richest countries. The fantasy of a vaccine that, almost overnight, can eradicate COVID worldwide, is comforting but unrealistic. The UK and US, two of the richest countries in the world, took almost thirty years to eradicate polio after a vaccine was first produced in the 1950s. It was finally eradicated in…
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