As pharmaceutical companies work round the clock to find a cure and a vaccine for the corona virus, Oxfam has come up with a petition signed by current and former Heads of State and Government, and other leaders calling on Health ministers to guarantee free access to a safe and effective vaccine to all countries when it’s finally developed.
New vaccines are often prohibitively expensive and have become more costly when a couple of newer generation versions are already exhausting governments’ budget. This is largely due to their monopoly situation and a recent report published by Medicins sans Frontieres (MSF) suggests that the new generation of vaccines are prone to high concentration of patent evergreening.
