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Ronald Labonté

Dr Roland Labonté is Distinguished Research Chair in Globalisation and Health Equity at the School of Epidemiology and Public Health, Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa.

(Unless South Africa’s Covid-19 vaccine uptake improves soon, the country will be saddled with well over seven million expiring doses of Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine by July — with nobody to offload them onto. Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

A dummy’s guide to how trade rules affect access to vaccines

It’s already become apparent that there is gross inequality playing out in the procurement and distribution of the new drugs. Why is that?

  • Ronald Labonté
  • Brook K. Baker
7 min read