Vaccine apartheid is prolonging COVID – not vaccine hesitancy
There’s a colonial tendency to portray people in Africa as anti-science and averse to progress, when the real problem is Big Pharma’s monopoly
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There’s a colonial tendency to portray people in Africa as anti-science and averse to progress, when the real problem is Big Pharma’s monopoly
Representing over 200 million workers worldwide, the Council of Global Unions has published a statement urging governments and in particular, the UK, Switzerland, Germany, along with the European Commission, to put people over profit and waive intellectual property rights on Covid-19 vaccines and medical products at the World Trade Organization.
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Senator Imee Marcos on Sunday urged the government to ramp up COVID-19 testing as she expressed alarm that the new Omicron variant, first detected in South Africa, could spread worldwide and spur another series of hard lockdowns and travel restrictions in the Philippines. Marcos said the governe
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday said it has finalized a global license deal to ramp up ...