Global Health Justice

vaccines


May 21, 2024

Red Crescent Demands End to Exploitation by the Global North

By Fatima Al-Shimari, GHJ Team

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…


November 10, 2022

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

By Simar Bajaj from NPR

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…