Special note: This seminar will be hosted on Zoom. Please register to receive the link and password two hours before the seminar.
Join the Division of Clinical Public Health, and the Centre for Global Health at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, for this webinar on Human Rights and Global Disparities in Access to COVID-19 Vaccines.
Vaccine apartheid has long existed prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. While mechanisms such as COVAX were set up to mitigate the delayed distribution of COVID-19 vaccines to lower- and middle-income countries, advance purchase agreements, vaccine hoarding, and limitations on domestic manufacturing are among many reasons that equitable distribution goals were not met in 2021. More than two years since the first COVID-19 vaccines were licensed, only half of the population in lower middle-income countries and 22% of individuals in low-income countries have completed a primary dose series. This is in contrast to 73% of individuals in high income countries. These disparities violate fundamental human rights to health and life, undermine the global pandemic response and threaten global health. In this webinar three legal scholars and practitioners will explore the implications of human rights norms and standards for resolving these disparities. They will consider the status and implications of access to medicines as a right; low and middle-income country campaigns for a TRIPS waiver, and the implications of human rights for pharmaceutical companies.
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The webinar will take place on Zoom on Wednesday, May 25th 2022 - Registrants will receive a webinar link and password TWO HOURS before the event.
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