MSF is calling on the Biden Administration to push pharmaceutical corporations Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna to help the world rapidly scale up production of mRNA vaccines. These pharmaceutical companies—which received significant US government funding to accelerate development of these vaccines—must immediately share vaccine technology and provide appropriate training to expand production of mRNA vaccines.

Globally, only 1 percent of people living in low-income countries have been vaccinated with at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine.