Several NGO leaders, including Cécile Duflot, and Najat Vallaud-Belkacem write that”a race for profits, impeded the access of those most vulnerable” to a future vaccine.
Several heads of NGOS, among which ex-ministers Cécile Duflot and Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, has launched this Sunday a call for a future vaccine against the coronavirus is accessible to all populations around the world, warning against a “nationalism of vaccination”.
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“The fears that a ‘nationalism-vaccination’ coupled to a ‘race to profits vienna hinder the access of those most vulnerable and disadvantaged, including those living in developing countries, are real”, are worried in a column published by the Sunday Newspaper that these officials of NGOS, including Cécile Duflot (Oxfam), Najat Vallaud-Belkacem (France One), Thierry Allafort (Doctors without borders), Philippe de Botton (Doctors of the world)Florence Money (Sidaction)…
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“The same mistakes cannot reproduce !”
“For the past two months, the international summits are linked and France displays its determination to make the future a vaccine against the SARS-CoV2 available everywhere in the world,” they write. But “behind the scenes, a fierce competition for the development and the competitive vaccines is is open between nations and the pharmaceutical companies”, they write. The Sanofi group had created a controversy in may, when the director-general had referred to the possibility of encouraging the United States for the distribution of a possible vaccine.
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“Our associations have the experience of years of struggle for access to treatment in the face of a pharmaceutical industry unscrupulous. The same mistakes cannot reproduce !”, consider the NGOS, in the eyes of which “to make future vaccines a global public good, it is necessary to ensure affordable prices for all countries and all people”.
