Bangalee Varsha, Suleman Fatima
Discipline of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban.
S Afr Fam Pract (2004). 2020 Oct 29;62(1):e1-e4. doi: 10.4102/safp.v62i1.5152.
The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is a defining point in human history, having far-reaching effects on all aspects of human life. In the race to find a vaccine, governments need to work collectively to ensure that any life-saving interventions are accessible and affordable to populations across the globe. This pandemic has created an opportunity for international cooperation in working on transparency issues both in terms of sharing manufacturing details to make devices for the diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19 and in terms of clinical trials for therapies that could prove to be effective against the disease.
新型冠状病毒(COVID-19)大流行是人类历史上的一个决定性时刻,对人类生活的各个方面都产生了深远影响。在竞相研发疫苗的过程中,各国政府需要共同努力,确保全球各地的人们都能获得并负担得起任何挽救生命的干预措施。这场大流行创造了一个国际合作的机会,在共享制造细节以生产用于诊断和治疗COVID-19的设备方面,以及在可能被证明对该疾病有效的疗法的临床试验方面,致力于透明度问题。