Vaccine Diplomacy cuts both ways... --- 'Vaccine diplomacy' is the latest self-explanatory buzzword, and it operates in a specific context....to get vaccines from manufacturing countries (ex: US, EU, Russia, China, India) to countries that desperately need them. It has had limited success - countries which make them also are hoarding (US & EU going now into booster doses), and in case of India, its initial bravado has been extinguished by 2nd wave this year, and had to import vaccines. Access issues are manifold: technical (capacity to make them - https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/biontech-says-aims-start-building-mrna-vaccine-factory-africa-mid-22-2021-10-26/), financial (capacity to buy, COVAX addresses this), and physical access (distribution to remote regions and to have in place supply chains).

Borrowing from the military playbook, attention and resources become readily available, when you add 'security' to areas, think cyber-security, energy-security, and global health security! :)

Source author: Vid Nukala Vid.Nukala@gmail.com