Among the G20 goals being pursued by the Indonesian chair this year is ‘ensuring equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines’. This has become a pressing task, though one that’s part of a bigger picture. Developing country...
Developing countries now account for more of the COVID-19s daily global death toll, at 85 percent and climbing, than high-income countries. Thanks to high vaccination rates, deaths in these rich countries have fallen...
While the U.S. has begun to vaccinate millions of Americans each day, COVID-19 vaccine supplies around the world remain scarce. Experts estimate that 80 percent of people in low-resource countries will not receive a...
The World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) director-general today called on vaccine makers and countries to take steps to ensure that low- and middle-income countries aren’t shut out of receiving vaccine...
“This pandemic, with its global scale and enormous human cost, with no clear end in sight, requires a concerted, human-rights based and courageous response from all States”, four UN experts together with members of a...
Science offers solutions but they will be ineffective without solidarity, says WHO chief Although 1 million lives are confirmed to have been lost to COVID-19, the real number is “certainly higher,” the chief of the...