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The World Health Organization is convinced that overcoming the COVID-19 pandemic is possible if all countries will have the same access to coronavirus vaccines. Therefore, WHO is calling for fair distribution – this is a message especially to rich countries.
- Inequalities remain in access to the COVID-19 vaccine
- Some countries still have separate pharmaceutical agreements with vaccine manufacturers
- This hinders the delivery of vaccines to poor and middle-income countries
- More current information can be found on the Onet homepage.
WHO calls for a fair distribution of COVID-19 vaccines
«We cannot defeat COVID without equal access to vaccines. Our world will not recover quickly enough without vaccine capital, that is clear »WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday.
Countries seeking doses of the COVID-19 vaccine are entering into separate agreements with pharmaceutical companies, which jeopardize supplies for the global COVAX program for poor and middle-income countries, the World Health Organization reported on Friday.
“Currently, some countries are still looking for supplies that could jeopardize the COVAX vaccine distribution plan. Without a doubt, »said the WHO Senior Adviser Bruce Aylward at the conference.
The WHO has long urged rich nations to ensure an equitable distribution of vaccines. The global organization is one of the leaders of COVAX, a program that aims to deliver 1,3 billion doses of vaccines to poor and middle-income countries this year. But so far COVAX is growing slowly.
«We cannot defeat COVID without equal access to vaccines. Our world will not recover soon enough without vaccine capital, it is clear, »said WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
«We have made tremendous progress. But it is fragile. We must accelerate the supply and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, and we cannot do so if some countries continue to address directly to the vaccine companies COVAX is counting on ».
“These measures weaken COVAX and deprive health care workers and vulnerable people around the world of life-saving vaccines.”
Intellectual property in the age of a pandemic. WHO wants the rules to be abolished
WHO’s director general also called on countries to scrap intellectual property laws to allow other countries to produce vaccines faster. «If not now, when?» He asked.
The idea of a temporary waiver of intellectual property rights for anti-COVID-19 tools will reappear next week at the World Trade Organization (WTO) meeting of member states. In the past, it has faced opposition from wealthy nations with a large pharmaceutical industry.
New WTO Director General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala from Nigeria – her term of office starts from 1st to March this year. She said that her top priority would be for the organization to do everything to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, describing the imbalance in vaccine percentages between rich and poor as “unacceptable”.
The body of the WTO, with 164 members, usually decides by consensus, but it may be that the members agree to a majority vote on this matter.
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