Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 WTO Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus And members of the mRNA technology transfer programme, launched in South Africa and with 15 partners around the world in low- and middle-income countries, are working together to produce their own vaccines instead of relying on others.
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Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 WTO Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Global South countries and global campaigners are still pushing for the US, UK, Switzerland and other blockers to agree to an extension of the TRIPS decision so that all developing countries have access to generic COVID-19 medicines and tests.
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The People's Vaccine Laurie Garrett Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 The looks on the faces of some world leaders is telling!
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Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 WTO Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus This ground-breaking programme could become a leader in the fight against HIV, tuberculosis and malaria and neglected diseases.

As Joseph E. Stiglitz said recently “It is imperative that we have the capacity to produce in the south when the next pandemic comes.'

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World Health Organization (WHO) Rachael Crockett Tim Reed James Packard Love Ellen 't Hoen donato Ashleigh Furlong On 22 June 2023, Indonesia and Pakistan facilitated discussions on Article 13 on supply chain and logistics. The People's Vaccine

Some Europe MPs Tilly Metz MEP Virendra Sharma MP Preet Kaur Gill MP tinarudolph we met in April support an equalutable regime for future #PandemicResponse . Our Op-ED in lead Indian weekly Outlook India : shorturl.at/rxCW9 Tim Bierley Piotr Kolczyński The People's Vaccine Brot für die Welt

Our reaction to the news of #COVID antiviral sublicence agreement:

'This could be a lifeline for people in the countries that can access generics through this deal, but COVID-19 medicines remain unattainable for people in the many developing countries excluded.

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There are striking parallels between COVID-19 and another deadly pandemic.

HIV.

Winnie Byanyima & Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex tell how corporate greed & political failure has cost millions of lives. And how to make it stop.

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The pandemic exodus from big cities thinned or reversed course in 2022, recent data suggests.

Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 WTO “The Covid-19 pandemic has shown that reliance on a few companies to supply global public goods is limiting and dangerous,” said WHO’s Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

Currently only 1% of the vaccines used in #Africa are produced on the continent of about 1.3 billion people.
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The People's Vaccine Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 WTO Same situation for many other life saving drugs - just take Orkambi from Vertex for CF as an example. Vertex won’t supply South Africa but block the entry of a generic version. 😡

Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 And this injustice isn't just in the past. Lifesaving COVID19 medicines remain unattainable for people in many developing countries.

Govts must reach a deal at @WTO that addresses intellectual property rules and prioritises lives over pharma profits.
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Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 WTO Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus There are initiatives in the works to ensure this vaccine apartheid is not repeated.

Global South actors in the 'Group for Equity' are fighting for a #pandemictreaty that will enable us to equitably and effectively prevent, prepare for, respond to and recover from pandemics.
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Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 WTO Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Just as with #HIV , the global response to #COVID failed the world’s most vulnerable, putting nationalism and pharma profits ahead of public health.

Never again.

Robust pandemic preparedness is the world’s best insurance against future threats.

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Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 WTO Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Joseph E. Stiglitz President Ramaphosa’s speech showed “we felt like life in the northern hemisphere is much more important than life in the Global South”.

We must support the initiatives that aim to bring equity and justice the Global South, and fight the profiteering that block them.

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World Health Organization (WHO) Rachael Crockett Tim Reed James Packard Love Ellen 't Hoen donato Ashleigh Furlong The People's Vaccine Marie-Paule Kieny Suerie Moon Luis Gil Abinader On Friday, 30 June 2023 it is expected that Mexico and Norway will resume their facilitation of informal discussions on Article 9 on research and development from 16:00-19:00 CEST.

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Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 They blocked the adoption of a comprehensive #TRIPSwaiver on Intellectual Property Rights despite the UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism saying that this “would run counter to the fundamental human rights principles of racial equality & non-discrimination”
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Powerful address from South Africa's Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 to a room of world leaders on the resentment felt by Africans at having to beg for #COVID19 vaccines and then being blocked from manufacturing vaccines on the continent.
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