The United Nations-backed initiative to equally distribute COVID-19 vaccines is low on funds.
A Jan. 15 shipment of 1.1 million vaccine doses to Rwanda included the billionth dose supplied and COVAX has made deliveries to 144 countries thus far.
FILE - A shipment of COVID-19 vaccines distributed by the COVAX Facility arrives in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Friday Feb. 25, 2021., the agency wrote last week that the program's ambition was "compromised by hoarding/stockpiling in rich countries, catastrophic outbreaks leading to borders and supply being locked."
"And a lack of sharing of licenses, technology and know how by pharmaceutical companies meant manufacturing capacity went unused," it noted.
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