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U.S. and Other Wealthy Nations Block Effort to Waive Vaccine Patent Rights in Blow to Global South
The United States and other wealthy members of the World Trade Organization have blocked a push by dozens of developing countries to waive patent rights in an effort to boost production of COVID-19 vaccines for poor nations. The proposal by South Africa and India was supported by hundreds of civil society organizations, including Doctors Without Borders, Oxfam and Amnesty International. Without the waiver, vaccine production will remain in the hands of only a few pharmaceutical companies. “Millions of us are basically going to have to wait for a vaccine, putting global immunity, as well as regional immunity, particularly in Africa, at severe risk,” says South African activist Fatima Hassan, founder and director of Health Justice Initiative.
Baystate Franklin awards grants to 4 nonprofits
Baystate Franklin Medical Center in Greenfield has provided four local nonprofits with grants over the next two to three years. STAFF FILE PHOTO
Published: 3/12/2021 5:05:44 PM
GREENFIELD Four local nonprofits will get some help over the next two or three years from Baystate Health and Baystate Franklin Medical Center so they can focus on the “social environment.”
Baystate Franklin awarded a total of $307,000 to the four, with Community Action Pioneer Valley’s Youth Partnership for Social Change and Health Justice receiving $100,000 over two years; Just Roots’ Everyone’s Farm to Everyone’s Table program receiving $108,474 over two years; Musica Franklin’s after-school music program receiving $60,000 over three years; and Stone Soup Cafe’s Community Needs Assessment receiving $38,526 over two years.
Posted: Mar 10, 2021
Professor Andrea Freeman
A symposium will bring together some of the nation’s foremost academics in the areas of critical race theory, family law, health and reproductive rights, food law and policy, and feminist theory, to discuss a University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa William S. Richardson School of Law professor’s book highlighting breastfeeding, race and injustice.
Professor Andrea Freeman’s
Skimmed: Breastfeeding, Race and Injustice has gained wide acclaim and she has been a sought-after speaker at seminars and forums nationally and internationally.
The symposium on Friday, March 12, 12–2 p.m. via Zoom will be hosted by California Western School of Law President and Dean Sean Scott. Dean Scott will introduce Freeman who will give a keynote address followed by comments from an outstanding panel. Participants can register online.
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The United States and other wealthy members of the World Trade Organization have blocked a push by dozens of developing countries to waive patent rights in an effort to boost production of COVID-19 vaccines for poor nations. The proposal by South Africa and India was supported by hundreds of civil society organizations, including Doctors Without Borders, Oxfam and Amnesty International. Without the waiver, vaccine production will remain in the hands of only a few pharmaceutical companies. “Millions of us are basically going to have to wait for a vaccine, putting global immunity, as well as regional immunity, particularly in Africa, at severe risk,” says South African activist Fatima Hassan, founder and director of Health Justice Initiative. We also speak with Achal Prabhala, coordinator of the AccessIBSA project, which campaigns for access to medicines in India, Brazil and South Africa. He says one of the barriers t
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