Through a joint effort, countries can increase the safe and efficient dissemination of medicine amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, but it will require a new level of medical regulatory coordination.
The Netflix approach, a procurement mechanism previously used by Australia to fight Hepatitis C, could decrease vaccine prices while simultaneously offering incentives to allocate the scarce product in an efficient manner and avoid the temptation of high-income countries to stockpile.
Un estudio sobre la propagación de desinformación en Venezuela después del anuncio ruso de una nueva vacuna en agosto de 2020, la Sputnik V.
Peru’s security challenges vary from expanding coca production, illegal mining and timber activities, to a small but persistent terrorist threat, an emerging new criminal hub in the tri-national frontier with Brazil and Colombia, and rising public insecurity in the context of the health and socioeconomic crisis created by the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the past, the IMF infamously treated each crisis with a “one-size-fits-all” approach that conditioned new financing on fiscal austerity, but has surprisingly changed tactics in the face of COVID-19.
On November 5, 2020, St. Vincent and the Grenadines will also go to the polls to decide whether Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves will win his fifth consecutive term in office. The vote is expected to center largely around the United Labour Party’s management of the nation’s troubled economy.
Despite the high COVID-19 death toll in Brazil, the president’s popularity is still rising. What strategies is he using and will the administration be able to maintain and build on its momentum for the 2022 elections?
Despite the Nicaraguan reality of social and economic distress, the Ortega-Murillo administration’s mix of authoritarian democracy appears to be holding strong against the destabilizing effects of the pandemic.
Will the aftermath of the pandemic strengthen region cohesion in Latin America? Predictions indicate no. Unilateralism is expected to linger on.
