'Every life lost now to vaccine apartheid is avoidable.'
in South Africa that's attempting to make its own mRNA shot would not be a"good use of our time."
"We appeal to world leaders to end this strategy of counter-productive nationalism and of protecting pharmaceutical monopolies and to finally act with international solidarity," the letter reads."Now is the time to renew the commitments made at the founding of the World Health Organization, where all states agreed to deliver “the highest attainable standard of health as a fundamental right of every human being.
Invest public funding now in a rapid and massive increase in vaccine manufacturing as well as research and development capacity to build a global distributed network capable of and governed to deliver affordable vaccines as global public goods to all nations. Scale up sustainable investment in public health systems to ensure that low- and middle-income country governments have adequate resources to get shots into arms and save lives. These investments will pay dividends in the global economy and help restore economic and development gains which the global Covid-19 pandemic has partially reversed.
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