Blog: The moral case for vaccine access

We should be immensely proud of how quickly the NHS has rolled out the COVID-19 vaccination programme. However, other countries in Europe are experiencing delays due to shortages of supplies.
And many countries in the global South will have to wait until late 2021 or even 2022 before they can start vaccinations, because they were unable to compete with wealthier countries in the global race to buy vaccines.
World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules allow for the intellectual property rights of pharma