© 2020 Syed Mahamudur Rahman/NurPhoto via AP A medic checks the temperature of a man inside a health isolation center established on the Syrian-Turkish border as a preventive measure against the spread of Covid-19. © 2020 Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images Patients waiting outside a hospital for coronavirus testing in Dhaka, Bangladesh on May 16, 2020. © 2020 Leonardo Fernandez Viloria/Getty Images People in Brooklyn, New York wait in line to receive free food from a food pantry in May 2020, as unemployment claims rose during the Covid-19 outbreak. Like most people in Caracas, she often lacks running water and has to fill buckets in a public tap to do daily disinfection after work to protect her son and grandson, who live with her. © 2020 Oscar del Pozo/AFP via Getty Images A nurse in Caracas, Venezuela prepares bottles with soap, chlorine, and water at the entrance of the health facility where she cares for patients with suspected Covid-19. © 2020 Vladimir Voronin/AP Photo A doctor examines an older resident at a nursing facility in Madrid, Spain, during the country’s Covid-19 lockdown, in April 2020. © 2020 Rizwan Tabassum/AFP via Getty Images A health worker treats a patient believed to have Covid-19 in a restaurant that was converted into a clinic in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan in July 2020. © 2020 Bruna Prado/Getty Images A municipal worker in Karachi, Pakistan checks the body temperature of a man waiting at a food distribution point during a government-imposed Covid-19 lockdown in April 2020. Municipal health workers conduct rapid coronavirus testing in a favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in September 2020. Governments should take steps to maximize the availability and affordability of safe and effective vaccines and minimize debt for low- and middle-income countries. Human Rights Watch also argues that using public money without reporting its terms and conditions undermines the human rights principles of transparency and accountability. Human Rights Watch spells out governments’ human rights obligation to ensure that the scientific benefits of the research they fund with public money are shared as widely as possible to protect people’s lives, health, and livelihoods. The 62-page report, “‘Whoever Finds the Vaccine Must Share It’: Strengthening Human Rights and Transparency around Covid-19 Vaccines,” examines three significant barriers to universal and equitable access to any vaccine that is found to be safe and effective – transparency, supply, and pricing. Governments should support India and South Africa’s proposal to waive some aspects of global intellectual property (IP) rules to enable large-scale manufacturing and make vaccines affordable for all. (New York, October 29, 2020) – Governments should maximize Covid-19 vaccine access and affordability for people worldwide, and those funding vaccines with public money should be transparent about the terms and conditions attached, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
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