CNN News: Dr. Ayoade Olatunbosun- Alakija
Pandemic at a ‘crossroads,’ warn scientists
3 January 2022
CNN News: Dr. Ayoade Olatunbosun- Alakija
We run the risk of going from Omicron to Omega
1 December 2021
CNN News: Dr. Ayoade Olatunbosun- Alakija
Africa has been left behind global vaccine distribution
30 November 2021
BBC News: Dr. Ayoade Olatunbosun- Alakija
Sub-Saharan countries travel bans
28 November 2021
ACR Convergence Today: Dr. Ayoade Olatunbosun- Alakija
Global Summit keynote: COVID-19 pandemic is a political crisis more than a health crisis
06 November 2021
The GPMB: Dr. Ayoade Olatunbosun-Alakija
The Global Preparedness Monitoring Board Report Launch: From Worlds Apart To A World Prepared
26 October 2021
The Forum Network: Dr. Ayoade Olatunbosun-Alakija
The Haves and Have-Nots: The geopolitical dilemma of COVID vaccine equity
28 September 2021
Science The Wire: Dr. Monique Wassuna
COVID-19 Threatens To Undo Progress Against Neglected Tropical Diseases
23 September 2021
Conversation: Dr Monique Wassuna
Progress against a neglected tropical disease in east Africa is under threat
21 September 2021
Devex
COVID-19 vaccine alliance Chair: African political leadership lacking
16 September 2021
BBC Radio: Dr. Ayoade Olatunbosun-Alakija
Dr. Ayoade Alakija spoke to James Coomarasamy on BBC, The World Tonight on how rich countries need to share their surplus vaccines with no vaccines and where people are dying.
11 September 2021
Politico
Health experts: G7 must act quickly to rectify the vaccine-equity failure
08 June 2021
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Donate billions more coronavirus vaccine doses and do it quickly: That’s the central ask from global health organizations and health experts to G7 leaders ahead of the group’s summit beginning Friday.
“The world’s wealthiest and most powerful countries are failing in their duty to provide global leadership to end the COVID-19 pandemic for everyone everywhere,” said UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima at a Chatham House event today. While previous donations of vaccines through COVAX are welcome, they can “only meet a small, immediate need.”
The figure cited by several panelists at the event was for 1 billion vaccines to be redistributed by high-income countries by September and then another 1 billion by early 2022. Panelists also pointed to the “burden-sharing plan” put forward by South Africa and Norway that would help dictate how much each country should contribute toward ACT-A, the mechanism that hosts COVAX.
While G7 countries are expected to make significant pledges of vaccine donations over the weekend, the World Health Organization’s Mike Ryan expressed concern that these could be empty promises. “Never ever promise what you will not deliver. Do not create hope without delivery,” said Ryan. “It is really important that the promises that are made this week are kept and are kept on time.”
Echoing this concern, Ayoade Alakija, co-chair of the African Union Africa Vaccine Delivery Alliance, warned today at a separate event that pledges aren’t enough.
“Grand political statements do not vaccinate people … pledges of funding, even pledges of vaccines, don’t vaccinate people,” she said at the event, hosted by the Wellcome Trust. Rather, its jabs in the arms of people that are needed.
BBC News: Dr. Ayoade Olatunbosun-Alakija
First of all, it’s not a geopolitical beauty contest… We all need to put our competitive egos aside and recognize that we are racing against viruses, variants, and vaccines. It’snotagift, it’s a global responsibility”
20 May 2021
CNN: Dr. Ayoade Olatunbosun-Alakija
The moral, mortal danger of “vaccine apartheid”
19 May 2021
Financial Times: Dr. Ayoade Olatunbosun-Alakija
Pandemic Gives Africa A Chance To Free Itself From Aid Dependency
17 May 2021
The New Humanitarian: Dr. Ayoade Olatunbosun-Alakija
COVID is a global humanitarian emergency–act like it
13 May 2021
The Telegraph: Dr. Ayoade Olatunbosun-Alakija
Waiving vaccine patents is a powerful signal of intent, but won’t be enough to stop Covid-19’s march
12 May 2021
Amanpour & Co.: Dr. Ayoade Olatunbosun-Alakija
Dr. Ayoade Alakija discusses vaccine distribution in Africa
8 March 2021
The Conversation: Dr Monique Wassuna
Innovation – and research – are key to killing off neglected tropical diseases in Africa
29 January 2021
The Conversation: Dr Monique Wassuna
Strong leadership fought COVID-19 in Africa: the next step is to harness research
11 November 2020
Bhekisisa: Dr Monique Wassuna
Africa’s Covid-19 research must be tailored to its realities – by its own scientists
30 April 2020
Journal of Clinical Microbiology: Dr. Monique Wassuna
Also featured in the Journal is Dr. Monique Wassuna Development of a Multiplexed Assay for Detection of Leishmania donovani and Leishmania infantum Protein Biomarkers in Urine Samples of Patients with Visceral Leishmaniasis
26 April 2019