PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Petrovic, Nathan
TI  - Reassessing the VaxTax
AID  - 10.1136/jme-2023-109045
DP  - 2023 Sep 06
TA  - Journal of Medical Ethics
PG  - jme-2023-109045
4099  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/early/2023/09/05/jme-2023-109045.short
4100  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/early/2023/09/05/jme-2023-109045.full
AB  - To counter the imbalance in vaccine distribution during the COVID-19 pandemic, Albertsen and more recently Germani et al have suggested a new system of taxation coined as ‘VaxTax’ that would force higher-income countries to fund the access of low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) to new vaccines in times of pandemic. I will argue that this idea faces numerous challenges of ethical, sociopolitical and economical nature that may hinder any effort to solve the numerous health challenges that LMICs face. I argue that while it is an interesting idea, it is neither sufficient nor will it ever be easily implemented because of socioeconomic or practical reasons.There are no data in this work.