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Javier Guzman, Director of Global Health Policy and Senior Policy Fellow, Center for Global Development Jillian Kohler, Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Governance, Transparency and Accountability in the Pharmaceutical Sector Nicaise Ndembi, Senior Science Advisor, Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention Natalie Rhodes, Policy Officer, Transparency International David Wilson, Program Director, Health, Nutrition and Population, World Bank Tom Wright, Senior Programme Officer, Tra...

Scientists around the world think the published information on Russia’s Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine may be too good to be true.

BusinessWorld May 25, 2021 | 8:18 pm PHILIPPINE STAR/ MICHAEL VARCAS THREE more coronavirus vaccine developers applied for clinical trials in the Philippines, the Department of Science and Technology said on Tuesday. In a press briefing, Science and Technology Undersecretary Rowena Cristina L. Guevara said the task group on vaccine evaluation and selection received clinical trial applications from West China Hospital and Sichuan University, Shenzhen Kangtai Biological Products C...

14/04/21 Delhi’s poor return to dirty fuel in COVID-19 lockdown Income reductions have forced households to abandon LPG and use solid fuels in cooking. Copyright: Kaushalspeed, (CC BY-SA 4.0). This image has been cropped. Speed read Urban poverty worse than in India’s rural areas because of cramped living conditions Without subsidies millions cannot afford to use cooking gas in Delhi Share this article: Republish We encourage you to republish this article online and in print, it’s fre...

Global secretive governments are bypassing rules during COVID-19 pandemic From Brazil to the Philippines, secretive governments across the world are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic by covering up data and bypassing public procurement rules, undermining trust in health systems, fuelling anti-vaxxers and putting immunization campaigns at risk. Clandestine contracts for medical goods and services have become the norm in many countries, while data on COVID-19 cases and deaths has been manipulat...

06/04/21 COVID-19, lies and statistics: corruption and the pandemic Children at the Public Health Initiative in Karnataka, India. Researchers in India found that COVID-19 infections in the country, had been grossly underestimated and could be up to 95 times higher than the official numbers. Copyright: Trinity Care Foundation, (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). Share this article: Republish We encourage you to republish this article online and in print, it’s free under our creative commons attribution lic...

Covid-19 vaccine could be heading to the black market Adiel Kaplan and Corky Siemaszko © Provided by NBC News The Covid-19 vaccine could wind up on the black market, experts are warning. The much-criticized rollout by the Trump administration has laid the groundwork for a scenario in which the rich and the politically connected use their money and power to cut in line and get vaccinated before everyone else, they said. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has already threatened to impos...