World Economic Forum January 17, 2022
Jayasree K. Iyer CEO, Access to Medicine Foundation

  • The past two years have revealed the fragility and fragmentation within our healthcare systems.
  • We are certain to face other shocks in the future – which means we must prepare ourselves today.
  • Here’s what we need to change, and how to go about it.

Chronic inequalities in access to medicine long predate the current global crisis of COVID-19 vaccine inequity. As an example, each year around 5.7 million people die because they cannot access or afford antibiotics – and the stark reality is that this figure comes from a typical year, rather than one affected by a pandemic. Essential healthcare products remain unaffordable and unavailable in much of the world, particularly affecting the 83% of...

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