Jul 20 (IPS) – “Vaccine equity is the challenge of our time,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), told the gathering in opening remarks. “And we are failing”at a special ministerial meeting of the Economic and Social Council.
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