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Vaccines, Medicines and COVID-19
Vaccines, Medicines and COVID-19
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2022
Authors
Germán Velásquez
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Abstract
This open access book is a collection of research papers on COVID-19 by Germán Velásquez from 2020 and early 2021 that help to answer the question: How can an agency like the World Health Organization (WHO) be given a stronger voice to exercise authority and leadership?
The considerable health, economic and social challenges that the world faced at the beginning of 2020 with COVID-19 continued and worsened in many parts of the world in the second-half of 2020 and into 2021. Many of these countries and nations wanted to explore COVID-19 on their own, sometimes without listening to the main international health bodies such as WHO, an agency of the United Nations system with long-standing experience and vast knowledge at the global level and of which all countries in the world are members.
This work is licensed under a CC BY-NC-ND
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89125-1 License: CC BY-NC-ND; Publisher: Springer
Keywords
"COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic,
access to affordable essential medicines,
Vaccine nationalism and vaccine safety,
World Health Organization reform,
Biosimilars and biotherapeutics,
COVAX Facility,
COVID-19 diagnostics,
Global health preparedness,
Article 19 of the WHO Constitution,
access to COVID-19 tools (ACT) accelerator,
Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC),
Inter-Governmental Working Group (IGWG),
Patentability criteria,
Pharmaceutical sovereignty,
Research and Development (R&D),
Universal Health Coverage (UHC),
World Health Assembly (WHA),
World Trade Organization (WTO),
non-governmental organization (NGOs),
Open Access"