The 9th edition of the Science Summit around the 78th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA78) is currently underway in NY, running from the 12th all the way till the 29th. The central theme of the Summit is around the role and contribution of science to attaining the United Nations Sustainable Dev

In June 2021, at the G7 Summit, the Director General of the WHO laid out an ambitious goal – “To truly end the pandemic, our goal must be to vaccinate at least 70% of the world’s population by the time you meet again in Germany next year..” However, as of April 2022, fewer than 17 percent of Africans have received a primary Covid immunization, while two-thirds of the richest countries in the world have reached 70% vaccination.