African scientists say Western aid to fight pandemic is backfiring. Here's their plan

Afrigen Biologics staff members in the company's lab in Cape Town, South Africa. Afrigen is working on a project to figure out how to manufacture the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine — part of an effort to address global health inequities. (Tommy Trenchard for NPR)

"The WHO is," says Oyewale Tomori, "well, I know the W stands for World, but sometimes I think it stands for White."

Tomori is a virologist at Redeemer's University and the past president of the Nigerian Academy of Sciences. I had asked whether he was surprised that high-income countries were buying up monkeypox vaccine supplies and WHO was sharing its vaccines with 30 non-African countries, leaving the continent without access.