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Global health experts have warned the race to vaccinate individual populations is futile in the long-term fight against COVID-19 and it's not just an issue of hoarding supplies.
World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has warned that the world is on the brink of a "catastrophic moral failure" over the distribution of vaccines across the globe.
Ghebreyesus said the prospects for fairly distributing the various jabs were at serious risk because of a "me-first approach" taken by some countries, which has left "the world's poorest and most vulnerable at risk". He told the opening of the WHO annual executive board meeting: "It is self-defeating. Ultimately these actions will only prolong the pandemic."
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GAVI, a global public-private vaccine alliance, is working to ensure every country, particularly poorer ones, can get fair and equitable access to a COVID-19 vaccine through its COVAX facility in partnership with the WHO and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations. The aim is two billion safe doses of vaccine by the end of 2021 delivered globally, with wealthier countries pooling their resources alongside agreements with lower-income countries.
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Ghebreyesus told the WHO meeting: "More than 39 million doses of vaccine have now been administered in at least 49 higher-income countries. Just 25 doses have been given in one lowest-income country. Not 25 million, not 25,000 thousand, just 25. I need to be blunt: the world is on the brink of a catastrophic moral failure – and the price of this failure will be paid with lives and livelihoods in the world's poorest countries."
University College London Professor Dr. Julius Mugwagwa argues WHO needs to be playing its part as well, in ensuring poorer countries develop the mechanisms and structures to be able to deploy the vaccines to their populations. He tells Newsweek: "There is only so much that the pharmaceutical companies can do. There is definitely a need to ramp up production but there is also a need to make sure that the distribution happens fairly. That is what the WHO director-general was saying, how can we satisfy the needs of one part of the world, while the rest of the world is waiting.
World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has warned that the world is on the brink of a "catastrophic moral failure" over the distribution of vaccines across the globe.
Ghebreyesus said the prospects for fairly distributing the various jabs were at serious risk because of a "me-first approach" taken by some countries, which has left "the world's poorest and most vulnerable at risk". He told the opening of the WHO annual executive board meeting: "It is self-defeating. Ultimately these actions will only prolong the pandemic."
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GAVI, a global public-private vaccine alliance, is working to ensure every country, particularly poorer ones, can get fair and equitable access to a COVID-19 vaccine through its COVAX facility in partnership with the WHO and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations. The aim is two billion safe doses of vaccine by the end of 2021 delivered globally, with wealthier countries pooling their resources alongside agreements with lower-income countries.
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Ghebreyesus told the WHO meeting: "More than 39 million doses of vaccine have now been administered in at least 49 higher-income countries. Just 25 doses have been given in one lowest-income country. Not 25 million, not 25,000 thousand, just 25. I need to be blunt: the world is on the brink of a catastrophic moral failure – and the price of this failure will be paid with lives and livelihoods in the world's poorest countries."
University College London Professor Dr. Julius Mugwagwa argues WHO needs to be playing its part as well, in ensuring poorer countries develop the mechanisms and structures to be able to deploy the vaccines to their populations. He tells Newsweek: "There is only so much that the pharmaceutical companies can do. There is definitely a need to ramp up production but there is also a need to make sure that the distribution happens fairly. That is what the WHO director-general was saying, how can we satisfy the needs of one part of the world, while the rest of the world is waiting.
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