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Global Duties in Crisis Response: A Duty to Help, and a Duty Not to Harm Global Access to COVID-19 Vaccines?

Antoine de Bengy Puyvallée

Progress in Development Studies2026https://doi.org/10.1177/14649934251414285article
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, governments widely recognized a duty to ensure global access to vaccines. What this duty entailed, however, became highly contested. I highlight how different actors formulated this duty and the political consequences that this duty-making had during the pandemic and its aftermath. I show that wealthy countries acknowledged a duty to share vaccine doses, while activists and Global South governments formulated a duty to share the ‘vaccine recipe’. I suggest moreover that the pandemic also facilitated the emergence of a negative duty ‘not to hoard vaccines’—in addition to a duty to help. I argue that global crisis response should seek to mobilize global solidarity initiatives (duty of charity) and simultaneously limit the negative consequences of countries’ own domestic responses (duty of justice).

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@article{antoine2026,
  title        = {{Global Duties in Crisis Response: A Duty to Help, and a Duty Not to Harm Global Access to COVID-19 Vaccines?}},
  author       = {Antoine de Bengy Puyvallée},
  journal      = {Progress in Development Studies},
  year         = {2026},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1177/14649934251414285},
}

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