An advocacy group is pushing for more ‘human challenge’ trials to spur vaccine discovery. Following COVID-19 and Zika studies, hepatitis C could be next. An advocacy group is pushing for more ‘human challenge’ trials to spur vaccine discovery. Following COVID-19 and Zika studies, hepatitis C could be next.
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AstraZeneca: We demand a People’s Vaccine
AstraZeneca: We demand a People’s Vaccine
As AstraZeneca held its annual shareholder meeting on Tuesday, our youth network launched protests outside the company’s head office in Cambridge, its second largest UK site in Macclesfield and outside Oxford University. We brought our demands for a People’s Vaccine directly to the company so they could not be ignored and our protests were also widely covered in local and national media.
These protests were part of a series of actions at Big Pharma shareholder meetings by the People’s Vaccine alliance to demand the industry share its vaccine technology, know-how and intellectual property with the World Health Organisation’s Covid-19 Technology Access Pool. In the past few weeks, People’s Vaccine protests have also been organised outside the US headquarters of Moderna, Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer. All of these vaccines have been developed with public funding and should be global publi
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