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Human Rights Responses Against Vaccine Apartheid

In this Up Close, a series of distinguished authors go beyond denouncing the vaccine apartheid. They advocate solutions that address the current health emergency and prevent future ones.

The origins of and solutions to vaccine apartheid are not just a human rights issue. They are fundamentally a problem of political economy and global justice. In the words of Partners in Health's Alicia Ely Yamin and Paul Farmer, “Even now, well over a year since COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic, the greatest obstacles to health justice stem not from a novel pathogen, but from the pathogenic forces of apathy, cynicism, marginalization, and historical amnesia that drive us to accept the suffering of the poor as inevitable misfortunes to be endured, as opposed to injustices to be cured.”

These articles go beyond denouncing the problem. They advocate solutions that address the current health emergency and prevent future ones.

 

Human rights responses against vaccine apartheid

By: César Rodríguez-Garavito
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In this OGR Up Close, a series of distinguished authors go beyond denouncing the vaccine apartheid. They advocate solutions that address the current health emergency ...

Supporting the TRIPS COVID-19 waiver is an essential step to support international human rights

By: Jackie Dugard & Franziska Sucker & Bruce Porter & Jamie Burton
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A waiver would be a vital step for expediting the scaling up of manufacturing and provision of COVID-19 medical products.

Secrecy, brand vaccines, and non-cooperation in the access to COVID in Latin America

By: Tatiana Andia Rey
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If we add the usual policy of transnational pharmaceutical companies to the usual policy of how developed countries operate, we begin to see why regions like Latin ...

Mobilizing international human rights to challenge coronavirus vaccine apartheid

By: Jackie Dugard & Jeff Handmaker & Bruce Porter
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Beyond the looming humanitarian and moral catastrophe of COVID-19, lie opportunities for mobilizing international human rights law to compel states to take action, ...

Vaccine apartheid: global inequities in Covid-19 vaccine production and distribution

By: Jayati Ghosh
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An ‘every-country-for-itself’ approach is irrational and even counterproductive, yet that is exactly what has happened.

Against nihilism: transformative human rights praxis for the future of global health

By: Alicia Ely Yamin & Paul Farmer
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If we recognize that global health has colonial origins, we must also acknowledge that it remains deeply embedded in, and shaped by, interlocking systems of power.

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