Emergency vaccine summit needed to help Africa, says UK's ex-PM Brown

FILE PHOTO: Britain's former Prime Minister Gordon Brown speaks during a Christian Aid Week event in London, Britain May 12, 2019. REUTERS/Simon Dawson

LONDON (Reuters) - U.S., British and Italian leaders must hold an emergency summit before the U.N. General Assembly to end vaccine inequality and send more shots to Africa and other low-income nations, former British prime minister Gordon Brown said.

Brown, prime minister between 2007 and 2010, has been leading a push for richer countries to share more of the cost of vaccinating people in developing countries, many of which have low inoculation rates and rising cases.