Campaigners beam ‘drop the patents’ onto pharma lobby HQ on eve of pandemic anniversary
Date: 11 March 2021
‘Drop the patents. End vaccine apartheid’ beamed onto UK pharma lobby head office as figures including Bernie Sanders and Graça Machel, Nelson Mandela’s widow, demand fairer access to vaccines
Head of UNAIDs compares pharma’s covid-response to AIDs crisis
UK risks complicity in “historic failure” that could cost countless more lives if it fails to act, campaigners warn
Pharmaceutical companies are under fresh pressure to unlock vaccines for low and middle income countries, as the world marks one year from the World Health Organization’s (WHO) declaration of the coronavirus pandemic.