'These past three years should act as a warning for future pandemics,' said former U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. 'We need a return to genuine cooperation between nations in our preparation and response to global threats.'
"These past three years should act as a warning for future pandemics," said former U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon."We need a return to genuine cooperation between nations in our preparation and response to global threats.
"Instead of rolling out vaccines, tests, and treatments based on need, pharmaceutical companies maximized their profits by selling doses first to the richest countries with the deepest pockets," the letter adds."Billions of people in low- and middle-income countries, including frontline workers and the clinically vulnerable, were sent to the back of the line."
"In the AIDS pandemic, pharmaceutical monopolies have resulted in an appalling number of unnecessary deaths—and it has been the same story with Covid-19," lamented Winnie Byanyima, executive director of UNAIDS and co-chair of the People's Vaccine Alliance"It was only the production of inexpensive generics in developing countries that made the first generation of HIV medicines available and affordable to people in the [Global] South," she added.
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