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Nattrass is a professor at UCT. She has written extensively on the HIV epidemic and wrote the Treatment Action Campaign’s economics affidavit for its famous mother-to-child transmission prevention court case in the early 2000s.
For many Aids activists, the contestation over relaxing vaccine patents is a depressing rehash of the battle for antiretroviral treatment.
As Gregg Gonsalves and Fatima Hassan recently pointed out, claims that developing countries cannot produce sophisticated drugs were false during the Aids epidemic and remain untrue today. Indeed, a recent vaccine summit heard evidence that manufacturers in Pakistan, Bangladesh, South Africa, Senegal and Indonesia could produce Covid-19 vaccines if they were able to access patented formulas and related know-how.
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On Sunday evening, Free State MEC for Health Montseng Tsiu said the Free State was ready to begin with Phase 2 of the national vaccination programme. “We have two vaccination sites in two different districts which are Thabo Mofutsanyana and Mangaung, she said during a National Department of Health briefing.
But on Monday and Tuesday, Mangaung was rocked by service delivery protests.
“The mass vaccination was badly affected by the protests in Mangaung which is one of the two districts identified to launch the programme,” provincial Department of Health spokesperson Mondli Mvambi told
Spotlight. “The violent element of the protest prevented the vaccination programme to launch in the district because people could not get to work as there was a total shutdown. Cars were stoned, people in the streets were beaten so no one could work,” he said.