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PNG could already have vaccines if Australia had not blocked waiver, says MSF
Médecins Sans Frontières says Australia’s opposition of intellectual property waiver probably hindered Pacific nation’s battle with Covid
Papua New Guinea could have received Covid-19 vaccines before its current crisis if Australia had not been part of a group of countries that blocked a proposal to free up access to Covid-19 medicines, say Médecins Sans Frontières Australia.
“There’s no doubt [if] the intellectual property waiver had been hastened and scaled at an earlier time there was a higher probability that Papua New Guinea would have been able to get vaccines [by now],” Jennifer Tierney, Executive Director of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Australia said.
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