Can a global treaty end the vaccine inequity that plagued Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic?
A quarter of the global population remains unvaccinated for COVID-19, five years after the virus emerged.
During the pandemic, African countries were among the last to receive life-saving medicines because powerful nations control vaccine stockpiles.
This “vaccine apartheid” fuels distrust in expensive Western-made vaccines.
Senegal and other African nations will produce more of their own vaccines to protect the disease-prone continent.
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