Health Issues India

  Confronted by the challenge of COVID-19, everybody and his uncle got together to fight back. In the field of vaccines and therapeutics this often meant a private-public partnership with governments in the Western world, particularly the US, doling out astronomical sums of money as advance payments for vaccines still under development. Not only did this help fund vaccine development, but there have been instances in which public research institutions worked together with private pharma companies to actually develop vaccines. Now in the relative lull with large numbers in the Western world having been vaccinated and governments pushing for booster doses, things have begun to unravel, the public-private honeymoon has transformed into a seven-year itch and nowhere more than in the home of private enterprise, the US of A!  Moderna and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are in a bitter dispute over who deserves credit for inventing the central component of the company’s … Read Full Article about Global Health Newsletter XIV