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Conspiracy theories aside, there is something fishy about the Great Reset, Open Democracy, August 2021
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The callous position of the EU in the access to vaccines negotiations, by Ana Vracar, People's Dispatch, June 20121
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Cuba’s COVID-19 vaccines: A journey of collaboration and revolutionary solidarity, Jyotsna Singh, People's Dispatch, June 20121
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What's new in COVID TRIPS waiver negotiations? Interview with Sangeeta Shashikant, Third World Network, People's Dispatch, May 2021
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COVID-19 in India: A tale of crumbling health systems and political one-upmanship, Jyotsna Singh and Priyam Cherian, People's Dispatch, May 2021
- David Legge is scholar emeritus in the School of Public Health and Human Biosciences at La Trobe University in Melbourne and a founding member of the People’s Health Movement. In this video, he gives an overview of the vaccine policies at the global level and explains the reasons for vaccine inequity: Covid-19 vaccine inequity and the proposed TRIPS waiver, May 2021
- On second wave of COVID-19 Infections in India, Chhyakada Chats-A Podcast with Dr. T. Sundararaman, April 2021
- The Public Sector Is Crucial for Self-Reliance in Vaccines and Public Health, Y. Madhavi, The Wire Science, April 2021
- Interview of Sundararaman T., on how the Indian government has failed at multiple levels in containing COVID-19, Newsclick, April 2021
- Why do we have a second wave of COVID-19, AIPSN, Commentary by Sundararaman T., April 2021
- Compulsory Covid-19 vaccination won’t help – coercion will increase hesitancy, not reduce it, Sandhya Srinivasan, Scroll.in, April 2021
- Second wave is likely to be larger than first, surveillance failure and COVID denial to blame, The Telegraph, Interview of Sundararaman T., April 2021
- In this interview, T Sundararaman, global health coordinator, People’s Health Movement talks about current vaccine policy and its roll-out in India. ‘In principle almost 100% will require vaccination … It should mean that everyone has an entitlement’. The Times of India (March 2021)
- Our colleague Sun Kim wrote an op-ed (in Korean) on global (in)justice in the after-Covid19 era https://www.pressian.com/pages/articles/
2021032416362809394: :The article highlights - i. 'vaccine apartheid and vaccine imperialism'; ii. recalls the global vaccine injustice during the 2009 swine flu pandemic and noting the Covid19 as the revival of it; iii. implication of the proposed India- South Africa TRIPS Waiver as the 'right to production of vaccines' under the 'development' of the LMICs.
- This article talks about how poor countries are paying more for the doses that remain after rich countries have had their fill. Vaccine Nationalism Is Patently Unjust. Nanjala Nyabola. March 2021
- The article talks about how the ongoing vaccination drive in India is leaving out the poor and the working class among the elderly and is mainly catering to the middle and upper class. A stark class divide is emerging in India’s Covid-19 vaccination drive. Vijayta Lalwani. March 2021
- Author from PHM India talks about the current updates on vaccine development, the optimism around it, what promise it holds in the Indian context and the arising equity issues we need to take care of. - "Covid vaccination poses both a challenge and an opportunity"- T Sundararaman. January, 2021
- Gangandeep Kang discusses vaccine development and the processes that led to it- "As the first vaccine doses are adminstered for Covid-19, there is light at the end of the tunnel". Gangandeep Kang. January, 2021
- Nkengasong, Ndembi, Tshangela & Raj (Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (6 Oct 2020) COVID-19 vaccines: how to ensure Africa has access
- Hanage, Testa, Chen, Davis, Pechter, Santillana and Krieger (5 Oct 2020) COVID-19: US Federal accountability for entry, spread, and inequities
- SouthNews (12 Aug 2020) EU Parliament adopts resolution on public health strategy post-COVID-19 based on use of TRIPS flexibilities to ensure access to health technologies
- TWN (10 Aug 2020) South voices concerns over “vaccine nationalism” amid COVID-19
- HPW (10 Aug 2020) Ensuring Global Access To A COVID-19 Vaccine Will Require A Massive Dose Of Funding – But How Much Really?
- Guardian (10 Aug 2020) Fighting for breath: how the medical oxygen industry is failing African hospitals
- SouthNews (7 Aug 2020) WTO TRIPS Council discusses national IP measures and TRIPS flexibilities in the context of COVID-19
- NPR (6 Aug 2020) Prices For COVID-19 Vaccines Are Starting To Come Into Focus
- GHF (6 Aug 2020) The re-emergence of the WTO as a key forum for global health
- MSF Access (3 Aug 2020) MSF applauds South Africa for championing health safeguards at meeting of WTO members
- Jayati Ghosh (3 Aug 2020) Global inequality in a time of pandemic
- WHO/WTO/WIPO (1 Aug 2020) Promoting Access to Medical Technologies and Innovation: Intersections between public health, intellectual property and trade
- South Centre (31 July 2020) Special Section 301:US Interference with the Design and Implementation of National Patent Laws
- Science (28 July 2020) ‘Vaccine nationalism’ threatens global plan to distribute COVID-19 shots fairly
- Bollyky and Bown (27 July 2020) The Tragedy of Vaccine Nationalism: Only Cooperation Can End the Pandemic
- Abbott and Reichman (25 July 2020) Facilitating Access to Cross-Border Supplies of Patented Pharmaceuticals: The Case of the COVID-19 Pandemic
- MSF Access (24 July 2020) Overcoming intellectual property monopolies in the COVID-19 pandemic
- WHO (24 July 2020) Draft landscape of COVID-19 candidate vaccines
- Helen Clark and Winnie Byanyima (23 July 2020) The world needs a 'people's vaccine' for coronavirus, not a big-pharma monopoly
- South Africa at WTO (17 July 2020) Intellectual property and public interest: Beyond access to medicines and medical technologies towards a more holistic approach to TRIPS flexibilities
- Africa CDC (2 July 2020) Communiqué from Africa's Leadership in COVID-19 Vaccine Development and Access Virtual Conference
- HPW (26 June 2020) Massive Mobilization Of US $31.3 Billion Required For COVID-19 Diagnostics, Drugs & Vaccines Accelerator
- Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research (24 June 2020) Joint statement on WHO proposed global allocation framework for Covid-19 products
- South Centre (19 June 2020) Equitable Access to COVID-19 Related Health Technologies: A Global Priority
- WHO (18 June 2020) A global framework to ensure equitable and fair allocation of COVID-19 products: And potential implications for COVID-19 Vaccines
- South Centre (16 June 2020) Making Covid-19 Medical Products Affordable: Voluntary Patent Pool and TRIPS Flexibilities
- South Centre (14 May 2020) An Opportunity to Fix Dysfunctional Biomedical R&D System
- SouthNews (8 May 2020) The Covid-19 Pandemic: Intellectual Property Management for Access to Diagnostics, Medicines and Vaccines
- South Centre (24 Apr 2020) Guide for the Granting of Compulsory Licenses and Government Use of Pharmaceutical Patents