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COVID-19: Vaccine inequity can cost India $786 billion, says Oxfam Oxfam urged the rich countries to open the way to cheaper mass-produced COVID-19 vaccines in order to protect every person in the world. BusinessToday.In | April 6, 2021 | Updated 17:07 IST Oxfam said the current approach for global production and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines is falling far short of what is needed. The inequality in COVID-19 vaccine distribution is hitting low and middle-income countries harder, with India...

The President of Afghanistan, Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has joined world leaders and experts in an appeal for equitable and fair distribution of COVID-19...

Several effective COVID-19 vaccines have been developed in rapid time, but that may have been the easy part. Are intellectual property protections and for-profit pharmaceutical companies now getting in the way of vaccinating the worlds population? On the 12th of April 1955, the results of the largest clinical experiment in history were revealed. Called the Francis Field Trial, nearly two million children played a role in testing a novel polio vaccine that was found to be incredibly effective in...

Cuba’s vaccine March 16, 2021 “The life of just one person is worth more than the private property of the richest man.” This is what’s written on the Calixto Garcia public hospital in Havana Cuba as a testament to the country’s commitment to free public healthcare, and to putting people before profit. I know this about Cuba because in March, at the onset of the global Covid-19 pandemic, I spent a week in the ICU at Calixto Garcia. I had been hit by a speeding ambulance, and Cuban do...

By Beth GEGLIA “The life of just one person is worth more than the private property of the richest man.” This is what’s written on…

Protesters Call On Moderna, Biden Administration To Expand Global Vaccine Access Protesters marched from Kendall Square to the Cambridge headquarters of Moderna on Thursday Craig LeMoult / GBH News Protesters gathered outside the Cambridge headquarters of Moderna on Thursday to call for greater global access to the technology behind the pharmaceutical companys successful COVID-19 vaccine. The group of about 20 activists, including local infectious disease physicians, marched down the middle of ...

Civil society organisations across Africa call for protection from coronavirus to be a global public good, freely and fairly available to all Covid-19 has killed over a hundred thousand people across Africa, decimated African economies, and pushed millions of people into poverty and hunger with no end in sight unless there is a shift to ensure immediate full access to vaccines. The virus has profoundly exploited existing inequalities, disproportionately affecting frontline healthcare and other ...

SADC’s silence on access to Covid-19 vaccines is too loud 11 Mar 2021 All people living in Southern Africa need equitable vaccine access. Time is short and our people are dying, so the regional body should act fast. (Photo by Luke Dray/Getty Images) Since the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the Covid-19 outbreak a pandemic a year ago, the Southern African Development Community (SADC), comprising 16 countries in the sub-region, has taken a reasonably active role in providing informati...

Amnesty International calls for equality in vaccination access By TPN/Lusa, in COVID-19, News · 11-03-2021 18:57:00 · 1 Comments Amnesty International (AI) on 11 March launches a new global campaign to call for universal access to vaccines against covid-19, now limited to a small group of countries, and for pharmaceutical compan...

The Weekly Whip - Lords edition! Welcome to the Lords edition of the Weekly Whip, covering the goings on in the Upper Chamber in the last week, and a taste of what’s to come in the week to follow. By Humphrey Amos, Mar 05, 2021 1:03 In the Lords we get to grips with the detail of legislation and improve it; we take part in debates on a whole range of issues, and we question and hold government ministers to account. For up to date information about the work of the Lib Dem group in the Lords,...