The Dig: 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…
The skinny
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