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Global Response To COVID-19 Promises Equitable Access, Independent WHO Probe

US supports WHA’s COVID-19 resolution, with caveats

 
• By Vibha Sharma

A resolution at the latest World Health Assembly meeting on providing universal and equitable access to COVID-19 technologies, medicines and vaccines has been adopted, along with an agreement to review the World Health Organization’s response to the crisis.

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There Is Global Support For Universal Access To COVID-19 Technologies

A landmark resolution on providing “universal, timely and equitable access” to all essential health technologies and products to combat COVID-19 has been passed by the World Health Assembly, the governing body of the World Health Organization.

The resolution - first sponsored by the European Union - also calls for an “impartial, independent, and comprehensive” review of...

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