All posts by Deborah Gleeson
Intellectual property waiver for COVID vaccines should be expanded to include treatments and tests
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Global inequities in access to COVID vaccines have turned out to be a “catastrophic moral failure”, just as the World Health Organization warned they would in January 2021. Yet it took 20 months of negotiations for members of…
Monkeypox – the next global vaccine equity failure?
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Inequitable access to COVID-19 vaccines has turned out to be the catastrophic moral failure the World Health Organization’s director-general warned about at the beginning of 2021. International efforts to equitably distribute COVID-19 vaccine doses failed miserably during 2020-2021,…
While Australians line up for COVID boosters, low vaccination rates in poor countries continue to cost lives
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Two and a half years into the pandemic, more than 12 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered worldwide, and more than 5 million are being administered each day. People in many high-income countries, including Australia, are now…