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Beijing, China - July 13, 2020 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
1. Screenshot of Virtual COVID-19 Conference on website of International AIDS Society
2. Screenshots showing Bill Gates
Democratic Republic of Congo - Recent (WHO - Access All)
3. Various of medical staff working
South Africa - Recent (WHO - Access All)
4. Various of medical staff working in lab
FILE: West Covina, California, USA - May 2020 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
5. Various of AltaMed screening site, sign
6. Various of medical staff working, talking to drivers
FILE: Florida, USA - May 2020 (CGTN - No access Chinese mainland)
7. Various of medical workers using swab to collect samples for COVID-19 test
8. Various of resident getting tested, blood tubes
9. Various of workers at testing site
Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates said that COVID-19 vaccines should be eventually available to countries and people that need them most, but not to the "highest bidder."
He said that relying on the market forces would prolong the deadly pandemic.
"If we just let drugs and vaccines go to the highest bidder, instead of to the people and the places where they are most needed, we'll have a longer, more unjust, deadlier pandemic," Gates, founder of Microsoft, said in a video released on Saturday during a virtual COVID-19 conference organized by the International AIDS Society.
"We need leaders to make these hard decisions about distribution based on equity, not just on market-driven factors," he said
With hundreds of vaccine projects under way and governments in Europe and the United States investing billions of dollars in research, trials and manufacturing, there is concern that richer nations could scoop up promising medicines against the new coronavirus, leaving developing countries empty-handed.
The European Commission and the World Health Organization have warned of an unhealthy competition in the scramble for a medicine seen as key to saving lives and resolving economic chaos sowed by virus, while some officials in Washington have indicated they would seek to prioritize U.S. residents.
Gates said efforts begun two decades ago to battle the global HIV/AIDS crisis, when countries came together to eventually make medicines available in most of the world including Africa, can serve as a model for making COVID-19 medicines widely accessible.
He cited the 2002-created Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and the U.S.-based President's Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief to get medicines to people to combat some of the world's deadliest diseases.
One of the best lessons in the fight against HIV/AIDS is the importance of building this large, fair global distribution system to get the drugs out to everyone, Gates said.
Various-Coronavirus/Vaccine/Bill Gates
Dateline : July 13, 2020/Recent/File
Location : Various
Duration : 1'29
Beijing, China - July 13, 2020 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
1. Screenshot of Virtual COVID-19 Conference on website of International AIDS Society
2. Screenshots showing Bill Gates
Democratic Republic of Congo - Recent (WHO - Access All)
3. Various of medical staff working
South Africa - Recent (WHO - Access All)
4. Various of medical staff working in lab
FILE: West Covina, California, USA - May 2020 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
5. Various of AltaMed screening site, sign
6. Various of medical staff working, talking to drivers
FILE: Florida, USA - May 2020 (CGTN - No access Chinese mainland)
7. Various of medical workers using swab to collect samples for COVID-19 test
8. Various of resident getting tested, blood tubes
9. Various of workers at testing site
Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates said that COVID-19 vaccines should be eventually available to countries and people that need them most, but not to the "highest bidder."
He said that relying on the market forces would prolong the deadly pandemic.
"If we just let drugs and vaccines go to the highest bidder, instead of to the people and the places where they are most needed, we'll have a longer, more unjust, deadlier pandemic," Gates, founder of Microsoft, said in a video released on Saturday during a virtual COVID-19 conference organized by the International AIDS Society.
"We need leaders to make these hard decisions about distribution based on equity, not just on market-driven factors," he said
With hundreds of vaccine projects under way and governments in Europe and the United States investing billions of dollars in research, trials and manufacturing, there is concern that richer nations could scoop up promising medicines against the new coronavirus, leaving developing countries empty-handed.
The European Commission and the World Health Organization have warned of an unhealthy competition in the scramble for a medicine seen as key to saving lives and resolving economic chaos sowed by virus, while some officials in Washington have indicated they would seek to prioritize U.S. residents.
Gates said efforts begun two decades ago to battle the global HIV/AIDS crisis, when countries came together to eventually make medicines available in most of the world including Africa, can serve as a model for making COVID-19 medicines widely accessible.
He cited the 2002-created Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and the U.S.-based President's Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief to get medicines to people to combat some of the world's deadliest diseases.
One of the best lessons in the fight against HIV/AIDS is the importance of building this large, fair global distribution system to get the drugs out to everyone, Gates said.
ID : 8149975
Published : 2020-07-13 19:31
Last Modified : 2020-07-14 18:09:00
Source : China Central Television (CCTV),China Global Television Network (CGTN),Other
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