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Hannah Ryder (芮 婉 洁)
@hmryder
CEO @DevReimagined, Senior Associate (non-res) @CSISAfrica, 100 most influential Africans 2021, economist, mama, runner, 🇰🇪, global citizen.
Jun 22, 2021 • 16 tweets • 11 min read
THREAD 🧵: Why is the world failing on #vaccines, despite ideals of charity, solidarity, or even self-interest - when no-one is safe until everyone is safe? Are new plans for local manufacturing and IP waivers enough?

In a new #OpEd for @SCMPNews, I set out to explain.
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1/ To work out what is needed on #vaccines we need to go back 40 years ago to a key issue pointed out by the Nobel Prize winning Amartya Sen: That when people are hungry - in famine - that is not necessarily imply there is a food shortage. It's most often because of distribution. 2/