golf then of course there is the weather charging and easy and the right absolutely fine, but it's when the weather takes out the power, then you're going to have an issue which we've seen recently, extremes from texas to california. that is one of the hurdles to it. but in a very similar way, if there is no power, then you're also not able to power a gas pumps to run your internal combustion engine car. so of course, there are things that could happen. we hope that those things would be outliers, that they would be on the fringe and the fringes, anything but the final destination for these things. the future may be electric, still some way to go until it's perfect. fed lavelle, i'll just era pontiac, michigan. ah, this is algebra, these are the top stories. the united states will donate half a 1000000000 more doses, 5 the faxing to developing nations to abide and made the pledge at a virtual cove at 1900. thomas on the sidelines of the un general assembly. the

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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 fire as a bio and tech madonna, 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 set announced the firms for refusing to share the vaccine technology or wave. peyton writes. the group says the drug makers, a feeling 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 equality. that's the 76 that you and general assembly's 76 session . will us president joe bible 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 hosts by biting at the u. n. g a. despite placing the fin 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 3rd quarter 2022. this clearly highlights the inequitable access to sean's developing countries, especially that more than 2000000000 vaccines have been administered worldwide. mr . 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 knock down the economy, understands national 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 enrich ones. 1.2000000000 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 sent by the world health organization. pfizer and bio entech of so far delivered 9 times the number of vaccines to sweeten that 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. the proposal faces resistance from pharmaceutical companies. many

say that peyton's and not the main obstacle to scaling up production. the. let's bring in our guests for today's discussion on the isle of wight is anna maria. she's a health policy manager of oxfam and policy lead for the people's vaccine alliance in bangalore room for sun. sally graham is project coordinator, equitable access to essential health technologies. in the context of cobit 19 project. and from oxford were joined by alberto jubilee, who was 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? are 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 i have

a question and he's quite legation 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 these 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 wave in intellectual property rights might slow down these kind of process in the future. so do use one aspect of the story. however, in this case, there are 2 things to consider. first of all, the, the official emergency for southern countries and has a bed to my right?

so these are come to reason some market force. so when asked about, we are to consider the emergency situation. and secondly, this company is received a lot of public funding for their research and development. so the estimate, i think of all these big companies altogether, it seems to be like $100000000000.00 public funding to develop alexys. so the market argument applies applied to a certain extent. so i think sound reason 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, we went to got the aspect to make sure that is gone by strict answer to incentive to do what they did next. the next time i think that would be our of our solution given the current solution. ok. press on. do you agree with that? are these companies putting profits before lives?

i missed you, but i didn't mean that it wouldn't be, i mean would you be so kind to be stopping operation? so this is similar, that's a little expecting. the companies who are here to obligation is no problems. i mean the structural problem audit mcclendon on i think our live. busy a little bit a little bit. and then globally live in the various obligation largely obligated to be more than b, y remains are mandated

and having on the organ and i'm not going to manage those. so if you have an organization like w, d, will make a new and good age monopolies and them. i mean, nobody's been want to get this one. so you're not going to live them. is like a big on fact i'm going to kind of what's more, 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, 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 they're doing is maximizing the profit 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 the back thing if the information of the technology and the legal rights to produce them were shad. 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 responsibility to 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 the government's responsibility to to make sure that 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 that it hasn't works 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 about 12 year old children, us talking about the box. and finally our children in the near 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 complex 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 seem at this moment. but if this distracted them 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? yes, for example, in india we have the companies that they've gone rent for all the g. i doesn't use the gumble for the licensee mechanism to break into monopoly media of the company speaks global economic and the new york city. but that's

the fact that i missed it back to the fun of the video population as being one of the products of monopolies and creation. and again, it does not dawn rance gone many times, and also by letter t, as because it, because it is so it is the global that has to be changed. and maybe it is languishing. and that is the question. and then ask as to why the companies in india, and i think i think i can just maxine in there is so, but yeah, the shading, you know you test 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, that they needlessly, in fact, and the virus needlessly 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 fragile health systems, as you 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, that 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 immunization is skyrocketing and many, many countries, and therefore be the long term consequences of,

of that diversion of resources 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 at a country like that, now that did incredibly well in the 1st couple of ways of the panoramic, they've only managed to get enough doses to vaccinate 4 percent of that population . so now with the delta virus that are really struggling to contain it, they're locking down again, and people are going hungry and vietnam, you know, a country that was doing well, economically, 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 thought, i say that i do think it's 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 pay as you know, will look at the figures madana beyond tech in germany, i'm making up with the 69 percent profit on the back things charging, you know, 41000000000 above the cost of production for the global supplies and 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 agreed 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 governments to, to step in. but we also must ask from physical companies to, to, to step up and do the right thing for us to save lives, 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 vaccines and that they had the capacity to produce enough. what did you, yes,

i'm not sure the conditions or 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 this many of his company that i'm making, i'm not talking about china, russian to the west or she would maybe are too large even equation. 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 that they're talking about that of that 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 you, by using line, we have our own indigenous example. yes, we haven't engineers to get that up. so that shows, i don't the global make. these have to be short, because this is not going to be the last time we need to have them in, and this might be like them, given rather than leaving it on the strategies. so the global mechanism would example that's more than more back to the

new one, as you know, stopping your friends, but they are meeting their store. yeah. i don't really think they all get back to me and they have 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 in 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 it's 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 conduct makes them must be conditioned, placed on, knows that the, 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 the medical tools, and then the resulting distribution and pricing framework. and what we 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 we all know, developing countries a no longer dependent on this trickle down charity of um, sets in 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, 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 a sense that if the funding makes just globally, there is some drug, there is some risk or so for rich foundries because dividers keep circulating at higher rates than would otherwise be the case. so do you want to conserve 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 party become for political charge, what condition to put in place. so it because now with the discomfort of benefit

from large amounts of funding but they basically can do whatever they want. i 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 that i'd throw some because we need to check the balance between that aspect and preserving companies interest in developing vaccines selected 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,

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