Vaccine ceasefires: Pipe dream or ‘doable’? 

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Getting soldiers and militias fighting wars to lay down their weapons for a vaccine rollout seems unlikely. But Jan Egeland, the former UN undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs and current head of the Norwegian Refugee Council, tells The World’s Carol Hills it can happen, and it can be a first step to ending conflicts.

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