Can a pandemic treaty end vaccine inequity in Africa? | Flatten the Curve | EP 1

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A quarter of the global population remains unvaccinated for COVID-19, five years after the virus emerged.

During the pandemic, African countries were among the last to receive life-saving medicines because powerful nations control vaccine stockpiles.

This “vaccine apartheid” fuels distrust in expensive Western-made vaccines.

Senegal and other African nations will produce more of their own vaccines to protect the disease-prone continent.

A pandemic treaty being negotiated at the World Health Organization could also help Global South nations better prepare for outbreaks.

Episode 1 of Flatten the Curve, a new series on pandemic preparedness, explores the fight to end vaccine inequity.

Credits:

Presenter and Series Producer: Drew Ambrose
Supervising Producer: Nick Olle
Associate Producer: Medhavi Arora, Paula Dupraz-Dobias
Producers: Borso Tall, Siwaporn Kingston
Translations: Dady Ba
Cinematographer and Drone Operator: Lee Ali
Production Manager: Susanna Low
Digital Producer: Susan Kim
Color Grading: Gazi Nela
Archive: Shella Costales
Opening Titles: The Bureau
Theme Music: Vicki Hansen
Footage courtesy of: World Health Organization, Nina Schwalbe, Minghui Ren, Health Policy Watch / Kerry Cullinan, Keystone / Salvatore di Nolfi
Picture Editor: Badrul Hisham
Executive Producer: Sharon Roobol

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