…life as experience in my own country illustrates. In terms of health, for instance, apart from the obvious increase in mortality rates, the massive diversion of health-care resources towards the treatment of COVID 19 patients has resulted in the postponement of less urgent health-care which will certainly bring about further avoidable deaths. Furthermore, the ability of frontline workers to do their jobs has been jeopardised by shortages of perso…
WEBINAR – Global Access to Vaccines: the Politics of Negotiations and the Global South
…Thursday, May 28 10:00 am US Eastern time Go to event webpage The second installment in the Global Pandemics in an Unequal World Webinar Series. When a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine is developed, will it be a “peoples vaccine” produced in time and scale, affordably priced, and available for all countries and all people? This will not be possible if the vaccines are produced and distributed under the prevailing market model of private finan…