The federal Liberal government has spent three years deliberating on an invitation for Canada to join a global body that designs vaccinations to protect the world’s poorest people from preventable diseases.
Documents reviewed by The Canadian Press show South Korea has been encouraging Canada to join the International Vaccine Institute (IVI), an agency based in Seoul that the United Nations helped launch in 1997.
The agency conducts research on vaccines for diseases given less attention by pharmaceutical companies, and looks at how to tweak immunizations to make them work better in conditions such as rural parts of poor countries.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic,
