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World Health Organization (WHO) to India Phone Number List guarantee equitable access (such as the initiative promoted by Costa Rica), everything indicates that the countries that pay the most are the ones that will have access to the first vaccines, prioritizing more the criterion of the market and purchasing power than that of India Phone Number List public health. Vaccines should be a global public good, and for this, global mechanisms should be established to prevent market disputes and “vaccine nationalism”. In this scenario, Latin India Phone Number List America and the Caribbean have a new opportunity to join forces to face covid-19 together, through common development around the production, purchase and distribution of vaccines, in addition to sanitary and epidemiological surveillance.
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