Equitable global COVID-19 vaccine allocation and distribution : obstacles, contrasting moral perspectives, ethical framework and current standpoints

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=ZMFPIQS0BI" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=ZMFPIQS0BI</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ebce-2021-0015" target="_blank" >10.2478/ebce-2021-0015</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Equitable global COVID-19 vaccine allocation and distribution : obstacles, contrasting moral perspectives, ethical framework and current standpoints

Original language description

Accelerated COVID-19 vaccine development represents an important accomplishment and a milestone in the history of vaccine evolution. However, the vaccine&apos;s scarcity made its equitable global allocation and distribution ambiguous. Despite the initial pledges from wealthy countriesfor fairness and inclusivity towards the poorer ones, the policies followed diverged significantly. Wealthy countries have vastly superior access to vaccines in a reality likened to an ethical disaster. This paper calls for the need for fair global vaccine allocation and distribution and examines the barriers that were met along the way, originating from different points, such as the nationalistic approach on the matter that most wealthy countries have adopted or the inability of poor countries to purchase or manufacture vaccines. Further, a suggestion regarding the ethical principles and values that ought to guide global vaccine allocation and distribution is provided with a higher priority given to helping the worst-off, saving the most lives, protecting people in high risk, such as frontline healthcare professionals, and minimising social gaps, along with an ethical theoretical background for each prioritisation. It is not too late for wealthy countriesto realise that vaccine inequity prolongs pandemics, so that they change their policies in favour of the global common good that will not only provide immediate universal benefits but will also serve as a guide for future pandemic crises.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Ethics and Bioethics (in Central Europe)

ISSN

1338-5615

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

11

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3-4

Country of publishing house

SK - SLOVAKIA

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

163-180

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85122867422