Posted on Sunday, April 4, 2021 at 6:35 a.m.
April 7 will be World Health Day. With particular repercussions in the midst of a health crisis. Faced with the Covid, we are not all equal.
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The Covid has invaded our lives. On the front line for over a year: the nursing staff. This is why the WHO has designated 2021 as the international year of health and personal assistance workers in tribute to their unwavering dedication in the fight against the pandemic. WHO is therefore launching a one-year campaign on the theme: “Protect. Invest. Together “. She stresses the urgent need to invest in health workers to reap common dividends in the areas of health, employment, economic opportunity and equity.
Speaking of equity, on World Health Day, April 7, 2021, WHO will focus on a fairer and healthier world. As the Covid has shown, some people are healthier and have easier access to health services than others simply because of the conditions in which they are born, grow, live, work and age.
Around the world, some groups find it difficult to make ends meet on a meager daily income, have poorer housing conditions and lower educational attainment, have fewer employment opportunities, and suffer from higher levels of employment. high gender inequality and little or no benefit from safe environments, clean air and water, food security and health services. The result is unnecessary suffering, preventable disease and premature death. Our societies and our economies are also suffering.
Inequality in vaccines
The health crisis hit all countries hard, but it had particularly serious consequences for communities which were already vulnerable, which are more exposed to diseases, which have less easy access to quality health services and on which measures are taken. implemented to curb the pandemic may have adverse effects.
Especially since some countries still do not have access to vaccines. Faced with this inequality, the WHO announced that it immediately needed 10 million doses intended to help 20 countries which do not have any, calling on the international community to offer these vials.
Posted on Saturday April 3, 2021 at 11:12 p.m.
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The increase in trade in 2021, although more sustained than expected, will not allow a return to the situation before the pandemic, said Wednesday the WTO, which calls for a “rapid and fair” deployment of vaccines to relaunch the disease. economy.
This call joins that of the World Health Organization which denounces the vaccine inequality depriving the most deprived countries of anti-Covid vaccines, while the rich countries seek to vaccinate a large part of their population.
If this sharing of vaccines is for the WHO a question of solidarity, it is also, underlines the WTO, an economic imperative.
“The rapid development of effective vaccines has given the world a realistic chance to halt this disease in its tracks and revive the global economy. But this chance could be wasted if a large number of countries and people do not have equal access to vaccines, ”WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said during the presentation of the annual forecast Trade.
But while many developing countries demand the abolition of patents on anti-Covid vaccines, the new boss of the WTO calls for the development of “voluntary license” agreements, as AstraZeneca has done with the Serum Institute of India in India.
“A rapid and equitable global deployment of vaccines is the best stimulus package we have for a strong and sustainable economic recovery,” she said.
Because who says vaccination, says deconfinement and therefore economic recovery.
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