Currently, Nigeria, Kenya, Paraguay, and Trinidad and Tobago are working together in the World Health Organization to create a resolution that would target the issue of vaccine distribution within underdeveloped countries. After the EU passed over Nigeria for a grant that would have severely helped Nigeria create more vaccine manufacturing factories, the country decided to take matters into their own hands.
As the previously mentioned countries wait to hear back from the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, their tentative sponsor, they have plans ready to be set in motion. These include the increase in the speed of the creation of current vaccine manufacturing and storage facilities that are being built in Kenya, more vaccine creation in these countries.
According to the Nigerian WHO delegate, “Nigeria would like to further the research toward its own COVID vaccine because we want to be more self-reliant and less at the whim of other countries,” according to the representative to WHO from Nigeria. This pandemic has made it known that we need to worry both about possible supply shortages and the current global enemy, the coronavirus.
As they move forward into committee session 3, this group is hopeful that their resolution will successfully pass. If it does indeed pass, these nations and their citizens will certainly thrive.
