my work by pro. this is a rough and tumble exhibition, a reminder that creativity comes in all manner of shapes and sizes. the bulk of al jazeera london, ah, talk a check of the headlines here now just in the united states says it's been a half a 1000000000 more doses of the 5, the vaccine to developing nations. joe biden made the pledge out a virtual cove in 1900 summit on the sidelines of the un general assembly. the taliban is appealing for a quick united nations recognition as afghanistan new rulers. the group has appointed a new invoice to a u. n. and requested he be allowed to speak of the general assembly taliban dealing with escalating humanitarian and economic crises and taking over the last month question for me as more now from the united nation. let's putting the united nations in the international community in a very tricky position. on the one hand,

there's concern about legitimizing the taliban and their forceful takeover of the government of afghanistan. members of the government, there are actually on the you ended your national sanction list, some of them. so that's a concern. on the other hand, there's worry about an economic collapse is the international community does not engage with the taliban and assist it, opening up the banking system and getting aid into the country, making it even more of a threat to international peace and security. so these are some of the issues that are being weighed by the united nations and the diplomats from the international community in general. for us as a to provide more than $330000000.00 in humanitarian and economic aid to venezuelans. the announcement was made shortly after president nicholas madura demanded sanctions against his country. be lifted. canadian president said has declared he'll root by decree and ignore parts of the constitution as he prepares

to change. the political system side says he sees pilot to tackle the economic crisis, but his political rivals are calling it a to more than 6000 people have not been forced on their homes and la palmer, one of these spanish canary islands. a massive lava flow continues to make its way across the island. heading west towards the atlantic ocean firefighters are digging trenches to try to diverted away from houses, but more than $300.00 buildings of sofa and destroyed us regulators. an approved booster shots of the 5 vaccine people over the age of 65 and the high risk individual to be eligible for a 3rd jet. the booster can be administered 6 months after the initial 2 dose course . the vaccination has been completed. those were the headlines and he continues here and i'll just era after inside story. thank you and thanks for watching news

news, news, news report cases leading curve at 9 team vaccine produces a failing pull countries. i'm a stand, national argues this amounts to an unprecedented human rights crisis. that what's behind that? and how can the vaccination disparity between rich and poor nations be bridged? this is inside story. ah, ah, hello, welcome to the program. i'm adrian finnegan. i understand some national has warned cobit 19 vaccine developers not to put profits before lives. and it's 6 big companies to uphold their commitments to human rights. it says that pfizer bio

entech mcdonough, astrazeneca johnson and johnson, as well as novak's, have deprived poor nations of the equal right to doses by prioritizing wealthy nations. the right group is demanding 2000000000 jobs be delivered to the developing world before the end of december. and the season so denounced the firms for refusing to share the vaccine technology all wave. peyton writes the group says the drug makers fueling an unprecedented human rights crisis and backed by the world health organization. it's launching a campaign to hold governments and companies to account amnesty. the report comes as world leaders had a basing vaccine. the quality of the 76, the un general assemblies 76. the session will us president joe biplane is expected to pledge vaccinating 70 percent of the world's population by next september zambia is president stressed the need for vaccine equity ahead of

a virtual summit post by biden at the u. n. g. a. despite placing the sin program high on the list, the mitigation measures zombie has only managed to vaccinate me 3 percent of its population. this is again as the countries target of vaccinating 70 percent of the elizabeth population by the fed quarter. 2022. this clearly highlights the inequitable access to the scenes developing countries, especially that more than 2000000000 vaccines have been administered worldwide. mister president, it is fair to set that recovery from the panoramic hinges upon mass, but nations before considering other reforms or facilities that tend to fail when countries knocked down the economy. amnesty international says the parts of latin america, africa, and asia have plunged into renewed crises due to vaccine scarcity. it's report

estimates that less than one percent of people have been an ocoee lated in poor countries compared to 55 percent in rich ones. $1200000000.00 more people need to be vaccinated in developing nations by the end of the year to cover 40 percent of the populations, the immunization target was set by the world health organization, pfizer and bio entech of so far delivered 9 times the number of vaccines to sweeten, but it is then they have to all poor countries combined. and madonna hasn't delivered a single vaccine dose to those nations or india and south africa pushed for the lifting of covered 19 vaccine intellectual property rights. the initiative at the world trade center received the support of many nations, including the us. well, the proposal faces resistance from pharmaceutical companies. many say that peyton's on not the main obstacle to scaling up production. the. let's bring in our guests for today's discussion

on the i, the wife is an a marriott. she's the health policy manager of oxfam and policy lead for the people's vaccine alliance in bangalore room for santa sallie graham is project coordinator, equitable access to essential health technologies in the context of cobra. 19 project and from oxford were joined by alberto jibley me, who is a senior research fellow of oxford, you hero center for practical ethics. and he's the author of the ethics of vaccination. welcome to the program. all of you, i'll better, let's start with you. is amnesty, right? all the big 6 vaccine manufacturers feeling an unprecedented human rights crisis. they failing to respect human rights. well, i will reframe the question slightly, because i think that having restaurant, he's quite a big issue to fulfill the human rights. now, pharmaceutical companies,

of course, his argument would be a darren or they're not charges, so they make profit. and actually the market forces behind div use exactly what drove the craig in developing the work seen. so this def companies develop from seems very quickly, precisely because there was an economic incentive to, to doing that. and you might be good to keep that aspect. for example, because when the next pandemic strikes, we will be able to produce vaccines as effectively as quick as we need. so waving intellectual property rights might slow down these kind of process in the future. so these are one aspect of the story. however, in this case, there are 2 things to consider. first of all, the, the official emergency for our countries and has been to my right. so these that come to reason some market for when i spend, but we are good because they are the emergency situation. and secondly, this company is received

a lot of public funding for their research and development. so the estimate, i think, is all these big companies altogether, it seems to be like $100000000000.00 public funding to develop alexys. so the market argument applies applies to a certain extent. so i think some reason or measure outside what would be normal force forces could be implemented and wave you intellectual property at least for a certain amount of time. not forever. i mean, we need to discuss the aspect to make sure that is gone by strict answers, incentive to do what they did then the next time i think that would be our of our solution given that kind of situation. okay, press on. do you agree with that? are these companies putting profits before lives? right? but i didn't like the ability mean it wouldn't be,

i mean, does it have to be so kind to be stopping operation? so this is similar. that's a little thing. the companies to here to obligation is no structural problems. i mean the structural problems aren't they can be clement on low. busy low level and global even though that obligation largely i'll be more then be while the remains are mandated, i think the issue and it can be seen having on the i'm going to i'm not going to minutes. so

if you have an organization that you will make a new and good age monopolies and then once again is what we have. so, you know, i'm going to live them on monday if i had, but i'm going to kind of what, what she thought says what she thinks of what you're saying. and a double vaccine manufacturers are reported to be producing something like $1500000000.00 doses every month. why are so few of those going to poor and middle income countries? where are they going? well, the model we have is that we are collectively, worldwide dependent on just a handful of cooperation, making these bad things. and they consequently have all the power to decide how

many vaccines get made, who get to buy them and at what price. and because they are driven by profit, and i would say greed for excessive profit. they are selling the vast majority of the doses to the countries where they can get the highest price. and our analysis shows that in some cases, that charging up to $24.00 times maybe more than not than the estimated cost of production. so what that doing is maximizing the profits that they can make by charging the highest price if they come to the country that can afford to pay those prices. the countries that are willingly paying more than they need to, to push their way to the front of the kid. and of course, that means that the rest of the world is being left without doses. and right now we're in a situation where people are dying, whether that things or not, this is an emergency situation. and yet we're not seeing the requisite action on

the part of government to break these boxing monopolies, to share a right to produce the doses as widely as possible to qualify manufacturers around the world who stand ready to produce them who are coming forward. saying that they could produce these back things if the information of the technology and the legal right to produce them were shed, they could be making them all. we could be securing a more even distribution of boxing doses around the world. but just a few governments increasingly isolated governments off standing in the way of these proposals about what, what do you make up that, is it the vaccine manufacturers responsibilities, make sure that low and middle income countries have enough vaccines or should that be the responsibility of rich nations and, and organizations such as the un. so i think the latter is true. i don't think it's companies responsibility. i think it's the government's responsibility to to make

sure that the distribution equitable because of the time before these kinds of profits are. because the reason why we had the buck seems so quickly is what tries development. it says networks in how things work unfortunately. but on the other hand, it's also true that the rich countries have large amounts of scenes that are not really necessary to meet internal needs. because some countries like the u. k, the u. s. are now talking to our children, us, it's talking about the box and find out what children in the future. not children in which countries are a group that is a bad, bad value brought loading from cognitive team and fantasy. and it is this kind of tuition that need to be addressed. but it's not that the conference responsibility is the government's responsibility to, for example, donated just kind of, if seems to consciously actually need to. i'm used to using for children who do not really need at this moment is distracted than by,

by amnesty of shaming. if you'd like all of the, or trying to, to get government to force the companies into sharing knowledge and technology waiving that, the intellectual property rights, even if it's, if it's temporarily, is, is it going to to work? yeah, for example, in india we have the companies that they've gone rent for all the g. i doesn't use the company for the licensing mechanism to break into monopoly media of the company speaks economics and the usa. but that's the fact that i missed it back to mention one of the video population as being one of the products of monopolies,

increases. and again, it is not just the dawn rance gone many years, and also by teaching as because it, because it is so it is the global that has to be changed and maybe it is languishing. busy and that is, yeah, we have the question like geez and then ask as to why companies india. and i think i got to be maxine so but yeah, sharing knowledge and i know you just to put it in your 1st on. so give us some idea of, of the impact that a lack of vaccines has on low and middle income countries beyond the fact that they

didn't, they needlessly, in fact, and the virus need to see, infects and kills people. how does it affect french, our health systems, french economies? well, we know that many countries may developing countries already have incredibly under resolved and project health systems, as he say. and the in direct consequences of being overwhelmed with corona virus means that people are dying unnecessarily. of other health issues that would normally be dealt with you know, the risk of increased maternal mortality is women cannot access health facilities. we know that the rate of children who are missing out on routine immunizations is skyrocketing in many, many countries, and therefore be the long term consequences of, of that diversion of resulting towards corona virus. so potentially catastrophic. and in addition to that,

because countries don't have back things that only way of protecting people from this, these new way of infections are locked down. and if you look country like vietnam, that did incredibly well in the 1st couple of ways. so the panoramic, they've only managed to get enough doses to vaccinate 4 percent of the population. so now with the delta virus, they're really struggling to contain it. they're locking down again, and people are going hungry and vietnam. you know, a country that we're doing well. i cannot make cli hunger with not really a significant issue in the country, and now we are seeing people without enough food to eat poverty on the rise. so these consequences of vaccine inequality all are devastating for countries. but let me just also say that i do think it absolutely right to the point the finger at these pharmaceutical corporations. yes,

government set the rules by which they work and they must take ultimate responsibility. but the agree just profiteering from these companies who have been massively financed by tax tax payers, you know, will look at the figures madana beyond tech in germany, i'm making up put the 69 percent profit on the back things charging, you know, 41000000000 above the cost of production for the global supplies to date and creating many more 1000000000 as from those profit, we've calculated 9 new vaccine 1000000000 as but we know that that number is on the rise. that this is a green just profiteering. while based on refusing to share the publicly subsidized science publicly, so subsidize technology with willing manufacturers around the world who could be making more doses, who could be making, who could be saving life now?

now we cannot turn away from that. i agree, just behavior. we have to call it out, and yes, we have to government to, to step in. but we also must come to school companies to, to, to step up and do the right thing for us to save lives, to put those lives before profiteering a better. here we are holding that the pharmaceutical corporations to account them, but they're not the only people who make vaccines. what about russia? what about china? cuba, they make vaccines as well should be, would be, should we be holding them to account in the same way as the big 6? well, if the conditions were the same, yes. so if they were producing equally good meaning safe and effective vaccine and that they had the capacity to produce enough. what did you yes, i'm not sure the conditions on the symbol. for example, the vaccine, please in russia and in china as far as i'm, i know, are not as effective. so i don't know if i don't know if the 2 different things is

compatible. i agree with what hundreds of said. so the profit of these men of his company that i'm making, i'm not talking about china rush to the west, or she would maybe are too large even this question. but the point is that the real delicate balance between preserving private interest and market dynamics. and because there's no sadness, so i think this is where we should focus res tracking the right balance between the 2 forces. i don't know about other kinds of markets and other kinds of production systems because these are the excuse, the one that we're talking about, that stupid really work and really matthew safe. so i think we should focus on the balance within these companies. press on a, do you agree with that the ever a view on russia and china, the vaccine production. yeah. it does say that the way but in the beginning of the global governance mechanisms. so these are subject

to the video. so, but example using line, we have our own indigenous examples. yes, we haven't engineers to get into that issues. i don't the global or the have to be sure, because this is not going to be the last we need to have them in, and it might be like them, given the rather than leaving it on the one ending in the subscriber. so the global headed to mechanism would example that's more than more back to the new one, as you know, stopping your friends, but they may not have been restored. yeah,

i don't really think they all get back to me and they had to be. so i think the very best guess what? i was wondering what is all of this say about the way in which we deal with, with health globally and the 21st century. do our health care systems are attitudes to those systems need to know the whole? is it possible to have a globally equitable approach to health care? i remain optimistic that is possible, but we need the political well to make that happen. we need to ensure that we work in cooperation and not in competition. and we need to drive out the commercialization of health care and this kind of dominance of profiteering over public health interests and not. that's why you know, when we, unfortunately,

governments are coming together and talking more about the next condemning than addressing this one right now. but when we do look at the next plan, they can how we need to be prepared for that. one of the key things that the must be on the table is that the public funding, the billions of public funding that goes in to fast tracking the development of the medical tools to combat condom makes them must be conditioned, placed on knows that the resulting medical products are free of intellectual property, we actually need a new system that de links, the investment in the research and development of these medical tools, and then the resulting distribution and pricing framework. and what we actually need to see is a redistribution of that manufacturing. we need it for this pandemic, but we also need to get to in place for the next one. and that needs to be,

that needs to be accompanied by increased financing from all governments who have the ability to contribute to that. so that we have a distributed manufacturing base in on the african continent in asia, and bolstering what we have in nature already bolstering what we have in south america. so that we all know, developing countries a no longer dependent on this trickle down charity of um, sets and quantities of concepts and timing. you know, we, the right to help will never be fulfilled by that kind, neo colonial dependent. what we need is a redistribution more equal distribution of manufacturing, more equal distribution of governance, and driving out those commercial interests. which cause such inequality in access now better feeling, this is going to be the last answer. what are your thoughts on that? a human rights watch says that 75 percent of all vaccines produce so far gone to

just 10 countries. the economist intelligence unit says, half of all the vaccines made so far have gone to just 15 percent of the world's population. what are the dangers for rich nations, a failing to ensure that the vaccines are equitably distributed. there is some risk in the sense that if the funding makes just globally, there is some drug, there is some risk or so for rich countries because dividers keep circulating at higher rates than would otherwise be the case. so these is one concern and going back quickly to what time i just said, i agree on the principle that it's public funding, it's kind of research and development. maxine that's kind of conditions and under the party become for political charge. what condition to put in place? so it because now with the discomfort benefit from large amounts of funding but they basically can do whatever they want to discuss what the political will should be and what the conditions would be. so i don't think it absolute freedom from

intellectual property. so just waving industrial property altogether, keys said i'd throw some because we need to check the balance between that aspect and preserving companies interest in developing vaccines. fantasies collected by david. this should be some conditions on that because i think the national interest and interest as well. ok that we're going to have to leave it many thanks to date. and marius. press on solid ground at all. beto job lini. thank you for watching tickets. you can see the program again at anytime just by visiting our website at al jazeera dot com for further discussion, join us on our facebook page that's at facebook dot com slash ha inside story. you can also join the conversation on twitter handle at a j inside story for me, adrian finnegan, of the whole team here is thanks for watching. i'll see you again. bye for the

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