Vaccines, Diagnostics and Therapeutics as Global Public Goods

By Armida Salsiah AlisjahbanaBANGKOK, Thailand, Dec 20 2021 (IPS)
Countries in the Asia-Pacific region are trying their best to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic by rapidly rolling out vaccination programmes and putting in place public health interventions to reduce its impact. At the end of November, there were 262 million confirmed COVID-19 cases and 5.2 million deaths globally. About 60 per cent…