March 20, 2021

Global Vaccine Apartheid with Achal Prabhala

Global Vaccine Apartheid with Achal Prabhala
Global Vaccine Apartheid with Achal Prabhala
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Global Vaccine Apartheid with Achal Prabhala

Astra Taylor interviews Achal Prabhala on emerging global vaccine apartheid: from the neoliberal turn handing the pharmaceutical industry global patents to today’s government-funded vaccines put under private pharma control.

Groups fighting global vaccine apartheid
Public Citizen: citizen.org/topic/safe-affordable-drugs-devices/global-access-to-medicines
MSF: msfaccess.org
Prep4All: prep4all.org
People’s Vaccine Alliance: peoplesvaccine.org

Recent work by Prabhala:
nytimes.com/2020/12/07/opinion/covid-vaccines-patents.html
nytimes.com/2021/02/05/opinion/covid-vaccines-china-russia.html
theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/oct/15/peoples-vaccine-coronavirus-covid-wto

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