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Vaccine Lessons to be Learned from HIV Epidemic with Colm O’Gorman

The World Health Organisation has repeated it's call for countries to make sure that all health w...

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09.58 6 Feb 2021


Vaccine Lessons to be Learned from HIV Epidemic with Colm O’Gorman


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09.58 6 Feb 2021


The World Health Organisation has repeated it's call for countries to make sure that all health workers and vulnerable groups around the world are vaccinated before countries move onto the other cohorts of their populations.

WHO Director-General Dr Tedros has cited the previous experience of the HIV global epidemic as a call to action saying there were medicines only arriving in developing countries 10 years after they were available elsewhere.

Colm O’Gorman Executive Director of Amnesty Ireland joined Susan to discuss.

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