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SUMMARY:Global Justice Now - Decolonise Vaccines speaker tour
DESCRIPTION:Why we need to end pharma monopolies and win a new global health system!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWith: \nFatima Hassan – human rights lawyer \, social justice activist & founder of Health Justice Initiative in South Africa \nProfessor Anne Pollock – professor in global health and social medicine at King’s College London \nAasiya Versi – Just Treatment Vaccine and Health Justice Organiser \n+ guest speakers from access to medicines campaigns\, academics\, journalists\, student activists \nThe global response to Covid-19 has been so unequal that some global south activists have called it ‘vaccine apartheid’. While those of us in the UK have been offered third and even fourth doses of the vaccine\, across the whole of Africa only 11% are double jabbed. \nThis injustice is rooted in a colonial history that has devalued the lives of people in the global south over centuries. And it is reinforced by global economic rules designed to concentrate wealth and power in the hands of multinational corporations in the global north. \nFor the pharmaceutical industry\, making massive amounts of money for their wealthy shareholders has long been more important than the lives of people in the global south. Twenty years ago\, Big Pharma even sued Nelson Mandela’s government when it tried to import cheaper medicines\, because South Africa was unable to afford the astronomically-priced HIV drugs they needed during the AIDS. \nToday\, these companies are making record-breaking profits while most people in low-income countries still haven’t received a single jab. And the British government is blocking demands by countries in the global south to break the covid monopolies that maintain the stranglehold of large pharmaceutical corporations over these medicines. \nIn this vaccine apartheid\, rich countries get prioritised access and everyone else must be grateful for the charity of their former colonisers. Join our Decolonise Vaccines speaker tour to find out how covid monopolies help Big Pharma rake in record breaking profits at the expense of people’s lives\, how countries in the global south are fighting back against the profit-driven pharmaceutical system\, and what we can do to transform health provision globally to dismantle colonial dynamics which date back centuries. \nJoin the campaign to create a global health system that puts people ahead of profit! \n\nBrighton\nMon\, Mar 14\, 19:00\nFriends Meeting House \nCambridge\nTue\, Mar 15\, 17:00\nLee Hall\, Wolfson College\, University of Cambridge \nLondon\nFri\, Mar 18\, 19:00\nKing’s College London \nLeeds\nSat\, Mar 19\, 16:00\nUniversity of Leeds \nManchester\nMon\, Mar 28\, 19:00\nSt Thomas Centre \nLeicester\nTue\, Mar 29\, 19:00\nGeorge Davies Centre Lecture Theatre\, University of Leicester \nNewcastle\nWed\, Mar 30\, 19:00\nHerschel Building\, Newcastle University \nStirling\nThu\, Mar 31\, 19:00\nUniversity of Stirling • Stirling \nFind all the events on Eventbrite.
URL:https://covidaction.uk/event/global-justice-now-decolonise-vaccines/
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