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A global vaccine apartheid is unfolding. People's lives must come before profit


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This article first appeared in The Guardian
By Winnie Byanyima, UNAIDS Executive Director
Nine months ago world leaders were queuing up to declare any Covid-19 vaccine a global public good. Today we are witness to a vaccine apartheid that is only serving the interests of powerful and profitable pharmaceutical corporations while costing each one of us the quickest and least harmful exist route from this crisis.
I am sickened by last week’s news that South Africa, a country whose HIV history should have taught us all the most appalling life-costing consequences of allowing pharmaceutical corporations to protect their medicine monopolies, has had to pay more than double the price paid by the European Union for the AstraZeneca vaccine for far fewer doses than it actually needs. Like so many other low and middle-income countries, South Africa is today facing a vaccine landscape of ....

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