Vaccine equity

Global leaders cannot treat COVID-19 vaccines as ‘apartheid,’ says former Liberian president

COVID-19

Former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a co-chair of an independent panel reviewing the WHO’s response to COVID-19, expressed concerns about COVID-19 vaccine roll-out plans. She tells The World’s Marco Werman that vaccine inequities could delay rollouts in poorer countries.

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