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  • Vaccine Procurement: The Changes Needed to Close Access Gaps and Achieve Health Equity in Routine and Pandemic Settings

  • Shawn H.E. Harmon, Ksenia Kholina, Janice E. Graham
  • Journal:
    Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics / Volume 52 / Issue 2 / Summer 2024
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    22 October 2024, pp. 467-479
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    Summer 2024
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  • Vaccines are not the only public health tool, but they are critical in routine and emergency settings. Achieving optimal vaccination rates requires timely access to vaccines. However, we have persistently failed to secure, distribute, and administer vaccines in a timely, effective, and equitable manner despite an enduring rhetoric of global health equity.

  • The Moral Failings of Vaccine Procurement

  • Enzo Guerra
  • Journal:
    Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie / Volume 60 / Issue 3 / December 2021
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    10 March 2022, pp. 415-422
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  • In November 2020, the world received the good news that some vaccine candidates were highly effective at preventing COVID-19. Yet, the demand for COVID-19 vaccines within the global free market has led wealthy nations to procure most of the vaccine supply, leaving low- and middle-income countries in dire circumstances. This article considers the morality of our global procurement strategies and argues that, although what we are witnessing may be adhering to the parameters set out in global business and global politics, it nonetheless has moral deficiencies.