Leaders call for immediate
efforts to ensure equitable access to
vaccines
New York, 20 April 2021 – As
we continue the battle to overcome the COVID-19 pandemic,
world leaders were alerted about the deep inequity in access
to the COVID-19 vaccines between rich and poor countries and
between people at the UN High-level Meeting on vaccine
equity. They called for recognizing the vaccine and related
technologies as global public goods.
In a Presidential
Statement, released today on the key recommendations
from the 16 April ECOSOC Special Ministerial Meeting, ECOSOC
President Munir Akram underscores that: “The expressed
commitment to global solidarity and multilateral cooperation
must now be translated into concrete actions, which requires