Medical Apartheid
March 7, 2023
Anti-Blackness in global health – from vaccine to visa apartheid
In this article on PLOS Global Health, Catherine Kyobutungi and others discuss what anti-Blackness in global health means, why it matters, and what needs to be done to counter anti-Blackness in global health and development. https://journals.plos.org/globalpublichealth/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgph.0001663
March 1, 2023
Vaccine Apartheid: Perspectives from a Kenyan Doctor
I was breathless, flushed, and worn out – symptoms that were consistent with the deadly SARS-CoV-2 virus. Or perhaps signs of sheer exhaustion from my 24-hour shift in the Kenyan critical COVID ward while wearing the required heavy, tight, personal protective attire. I contemplated going in for my second PCR test for the week, while thoughts…
November 10, 2022
African scientists say Western aid to fight pandemic is backfiring. Here’s their plan
Global health inequities are inevitable, according to virologist and former president of the Nigerian Academy of Sciences Oyewale Tomori. “The WHO is,” says Tomori, “well, I know the W stands for World, but sometimes I think it stands for White.” Dr. Tomori shared that he was not surprised that high-income countries were buying up monkeypox vaccine…
September 25, 2022
[VIDEO] Are Vaccines Really That Accessible?
We are 16 months into the COVID-19 pandemic and about a year into the discussion to waiver the intellectual property rights for manufacturing the COVID-19 vaccine. In May 2020, the World Health Organization launched the COVID-19 Technology Access Pool (C-TAP) after a request from the president of Costa Rica for voluntary arrangement by the owners…
August 16, 2022
Zika, forgotten and forsaken: Global North’s lack of interest leaves vulnerable families stranded
The New York Times reveals that as soon as it became clear that Zika wouldn’t ravage the Global North, funding and attention dwindled, leaving impoverished communities to suffer in silence. Sadly, those in lower socioeconomic classes are hit the hardest, with little hope of relief. And just when they needed it most, the COVID-19 pandemic…
June 19, 2022
WTO deal on vaccine patents called a ‘sham’ dictated by big Pharma
“Once again, the shameful, undemocratic WTO process allowed rich countries representing corporate interests to strongarm a sham agreement that bears no resemblance to the original waiver proposal and will do nothing to help save lives for this or future pandemics,” says Melinda St. Louis, Global Trade Watch. “The worldwide movement….will not throw in the towel…
May 18, 2022
Global South responsibility to utilize TRIPS waiver
May 6 2022 interview with Achal Probhala, Indian Coordinator of the AccessIBSA project, which campaigns for access to medicines in India, Brazil and South Africa. Democracy Now! https://www.democracynow.org/2022/5/6/who_finds_15_million_pandemic_deaths India and South Africa, about a year and a half ago, went to the World Trade Organization to ask for a pause, a temporary suspension of pharmaceutical…
May 7, 2022
Apartheid logic in global health
Mosoka Fallah and Eric Reinhart provide an excellent historical perspective on the global apartheid of HIV treatment in the 1990s and early 2000s as a backdrop to understanding the abject failure to provide COVID-19 prevention and care to the disenfranchised peoples of the world. They point out how such efforts perpetuate the “quasi-colonial humanitarian playgrounds…
March 19, 2022
Omicron: The variant that Vaccine Apartheid built
Her December 2021 article describes the racialized inequities of vaccine access, how black and brown people are told to wait, last in line. Philanthropy can’t buy equity. Global solidarity is key. https://www.justsecurity.org/79403/omicron-the-variant-that-vaccine-apartheid-built/www.test.com
January 25, 2022
Biggest Roadblock to Biden-Convened COVID-19 Summit’s Success: Fealty to Moderna and Pfizer – Linked Article
ORGINAL ARTICLE: Please see the original article by Asia Russell, Jessica Bassett and Brook Baker from Health Gap published on 9/20/2021. COMMENT BY GLOBAL HEALTH JUSTICE TEAM Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, political officials and global health professionals have blindly trusted Pfizer and Moderna to work towards the more equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines. Now more than a year…
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