Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari announced that Nigeria will sign up for the urgent global call for a popular vaccine that opposes COVID-19. The president approved the initiative and issued an official audience in support of the campaign.
“Learning from the painful classes of a history of unequal access to the remedy of diseases like HIV, we will have to pay attention to the warning that “those who do not forget the afterlife are doomed to repeat it,” Mr. Buhari. “Only a popular vaccine, founded on equality and solidarity, can protect all humanity and relaunch our societies safely. An ambitious foreign agreement cannot wait.
Nigeria is Africa’s most populous country, is home to more than two hundred million people and has the third largest number of COVID-19 cases in Africa after South Africa and Ethiopia. In March 2020, Buhari established a presidential industry race organization to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, which produced a mid-term report in July 2020 describing a set of paintings being made to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
However, the report also shows that the degrees of infrastructure and fitness equipment in Nigeria are not strong enough for a sustained national reaction to COVID-19 and that if the pandemic spreads exponentially, Nigeria would have difficulty putting an effective reaction into position. they want access to a COVID-19 vaccine in Nigeria as soon as it becomes available.
“UNAIDS and other members of the People’s Vaccine Alliance are calling for a new technique that puts public aptitude at the forefront by sharing wisdom and maximizing the source so that no one is left behind,” said Winnie Byanyima, EXECUTIVE Director of UNAIDS. not doing so will lead to more deaths and economic chaos, pushing millions of others into poverty.
The People’s Vaccine Alliance is a coalition of organizations and activists united in the unusual purpose of campaigning for a popular vaccine opposed to COVID-19. In addition to movements taken through the World Health Organization (WHO), adding the COVID-19 access group, the People’s Vaccine Alliance requires that all vaccines, remedies and tests be monopolized, mass-produced, fully distributed and made for all. people, in every country, to let go.
“The popular vaccine will go a long way in leveling out the force dynamics that perpetuate inequality and fuel injustice and ensure that no one is left behind,” said Edward Kallon, United Nations Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria. a vaccine against COVID-19 because of where they live or how much cash they have; it will have to be a global public vaccine, available to all who want it, regardless of their situation.
The People’s Vaccine Alliance urges pharmaceutical companies and governments to:
Avoid the monopoly of vaccine production by subordinating public investment for studies and progression to study establishments and pharmaceutical corporations that share all information, data, biological material, know-how and intellectual property. The WHO COVID-19 Technology Access Fund provides the mechanism for such an exchange. Avoid the monopoly on the source of vaccines by allowing as many brands as possible, adding emerging countries, to produce vaccines. Implement equitable distribution of vaccines that prioritizes fitness personnel and other teams at risk in all countries. Immunization systems come with underserved teams, adding refugees, prisoners, and others living in slums and other crowded housing conditions. Allocation between and within countries is based on need, not ability to pay. Provide the vaccine loose at the point of use. Ensure the full participation of the next governments of the countries, as well as the global civil society, in the decision-making forums on vaccines (and other COVID-19 technologies) and make some transparency and accountability in all decisions.
To date, the popular vaccine has been supported by more than 140 leaders and advocates from around the world, as well as the President of South Africa and the President of the African Union Commission, the Presidents of Ghana and Senegal. Director of the African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Special Rapporteur on the right of every person to enjoy popular affordable physical and intellectual health.
Distributed through the APO Group on behalf of the United Nations HIV/AIDS Programme (UNAIDS).
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