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Red Crescent Demands End to Exploitation by the Global North

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A staggering quarter of the world’s population, around two billion people, still lack access to basic healthcare, according to Badr Jafar, CEO of Crescent Group. Despite the efforts of the global health ecosystem to close this gap, the deep-rooted social, economic, demographic, and geographical disparities largely stem from the historical and ongoing exploitation by the Global North. This exploitation has left the Global South grappling with immense health inequities. Jafar calls for a significant shift in public health, emphasizing the…

African scientists say Western aid to fight pandemic is backfiring. Here’s their plan

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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 supplies and that WHO was sharing its vaccines with 30 non-African countries, leaving the continent without access.  Fed up with their countries’ inadequate responses to Ebola, COVID-19, and…