💔 People in India are dying, whilst rich countries refuse to share existing vaccine technologies with the world.
📣You can change this!
Sign our legisl. proposal to the European Commission, and share this message!
⏩noprofitonpandemic.eu
We need a #PeoplesVaccine#TRIPSwaiver
PHM, @mmi_updates & @G2H2_Geneva are launching the book #GHW6 today evening in Geneva. Join us if you are in the city. We are excited to meet friends in person after a long gap. :)
You can read introduction to the book here: bit.ly/3LUfMaR
ALT Global Health Watch 6: In the shadow of the pandemic
Date: 24 May, 2022
Time: 6.30 PM
Venue: Zazi Sadou, Maison Internationale des Associations,
Rue des Savoises 15, 1205 Genève, Switzerland
Interpretation will be available in English and French.
Speakers:
• Roman Vega, People’s Health Movement (PHM)
• K M Gopakumar, Third World Network
• Dian Blandina, PHM
• Kumanan Rasanathan, World Health Organisation
Chair: Lauren Paremoer, PHM
(It is only a physical launch.)
🇦🇹 A group of grandmas and grandpas started yesterday a 3 day vigil in Vienna to commemorate the Covid-19 deaths.
They continue the protest until Wednesday, when a crucial @wto meeting takes place.
📣 'Patents Kill' & 'Free the Patents, end the pandemic'
#TRIPSwaiver
What's so sensitive about McKinsey's advice to European Commission on EU #COVID19 strategy?
The Commission removed virtually all substance from documents 'released' after #FOI request...
Yet another example of poor implementation of EU access to documents law!
#transparency
Groups worldwide called on @EU_Commission to act to #EndVaccineApartheid.
In this months overdue response from @IamPerHaugaard@vonderleyen, they say they share the goal of global vaccine equity but:
– Won't push patent waiver
– Are donating doses at a snail's pace
Unacceptable
'Commerc. healthcare systems are less effective in responding to crises ... and could put at risk the lives of the population they serve'. Sharing this report by @GIESCR on Italy’s experience during Cov.19 & the limits of privatisation in healthcare
👉 gi-escr.org/latest-news/5pg0…
"The level of colonial mindset to say 'we can't give you something because we're afraid you won't use it,' I mean, seriously? In the middle of a pandemic?"
@WHO's @DrMikeRyan blasts those worried about donated vaccines being "wasted" in poorer countries with delivery challenges.
Did you know that the MRNA technology used for some Covid-19 vaccines is developed by public universities?
Hear the full story, and much more, during @zeroCovid_DACH 's event 👇
🙌 Notre campagne fonctionne ! Le 9 juin, le Parlement européen a adopté une résolution en faveur de la levée temporaire des brevets sur les vaccins et traitements COVID-19.
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😷 Cela est nécessaire pour disposer rapidement de vaccins plus nombreux et moins chers, et ainsi empêcher l'apparition de nouveaux variants du virus. Nous ne devrions pas payer pour les profits de Big Pharma.
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🙌 Our campaign is working! On June 9th, the European Parliament adopted a resolution in favour of temporarily lifting the patents on COVID-19 vaccines and treatments.
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😷 This is necessary to quickly have more, cheaper vaccines, and thus prevent new variants of the virus. We should not pay for Big Pharma's profits.
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✊With the European Citizens' Initiative, we have already collected 205,000 signatures to make the vaccine a public good, available to the whole world. We need more signatures.
Make your voice heard. Sign and share now:
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✊Avec l'initiative citoyenne européenne, nous avons déjà recueilli 205 000 signatures pour faire du vaccin un bien public mondialement disponible. Nous avons besoin de beaucoup plus de signatures !
Signez et partagez maintenant :
✍️ noprofitonpandemic.eu/fr/
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