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ArticleCadernos ibero-americanos de direito sanitario = Cuadernos iberoamericanos de derecho sanitario

Brief communication International cooperation in a non-ideal world: the example of COVAX.

Florencia Luna, Felicitas Holzer

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Article in Cadernos ibero-americanos de direito sanitario = Cuadernos iberoamericanos de derecho sanitario. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Florencia LunaDoctor; Bioethics Program Director,Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), Bioethics Program, Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina; principal researcher at National Council of Research in Science and Technology (CONICET).ORCID 0000-0001-8865-2756
Felicitas HolzerPhD, Institute of Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-3674-0241

Funding

Training Program in Research Ethics in the AmericasR25TW001605 · FIC · YESHIVA UNIVERSITY · PI LUNA, FLORENCIA · 2000 to 2025
$6.7M
FIC NIH HHS R25 TW001605
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The world witnessed one of the fasted responses in history to a new disease in terms of drug and vaccine development. However, despite the fact that safe and effective vaccines for COVID-19 were developed at a remarkable pace, international cooperation seems to have failed regarding the global equitable allocation of vaccines. This article explores challenges to international cooperation in global health and specifically to the fair allocation of vaccines at a global scale. We will present major obstacles to cooperative efforts and an interesting answer such as the COVAX facility, a cooperative redistribution scheme that has recently been launched by WHO, CEPI and Gavi. Considering COVAX a laudable and necessary first step to improve international cooperation in health, we nevertheless argue that the facility needs to identify key areas of potential improvement.

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Access to COVID-19 vaccinesGlobal justiceInternational cooperationVaccine nationalism

Identifiers

PMID34938817
PMCPMC8691259

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