Equitable access to Covid-19 diagnostics and therapeutics is key to ending the pandemic
One year has passed since the TRIPS waiver proposal was first tabled at the World Trade Organization, and rich countries persevere in opposing it. This has affected the availability of vaccines, and is having effect on access to diagnostics and therapeutics too
Guinea-Bissau health workers demand to be valued
Health workers in different regions of Guinea-Bissau went on strike at the end of September to fight for improvements of the health system
Lebanon’s political and economic crisis hits health sector
Lebanese public health experts Aline Germani and Samer Jabbour discuss the impact of the political and economic crisis in the country, and the implications for the health sector. They also talk about the expectations from the new government
Polish health workers mobilize to save a dying health system
Tens of thousands of health workers in Poland are demanding the government to ensure safe staffing, better working conditions, and more funding for the public health system
Healthcare in Haiti suffers in the midst of a political and economic crisis
The healthcare system in Haiti has been underfunded and understaffed for years, and it is now facing a new set of challenges after the 14 August earthquake in the southwest of the country.
Health workers’ right to strike under threat
Some governments have taken the COVID-19 pandemic as an excuse to limit people’s rights, including workers’ right to organize. Across the world, health workers who have organized strikes and other actions have faced repression and threats.
China’s vaccine project offers new prospects of global collaboration
Vaccines by the Chinese firms Sinopharm and Sinovac are being administered across the world on terms far more favorable than those of US and UK-based pharma giants
Myanmar’s pandemic coup: Health workers in the forefront of resistance
Four months after the military took power through a coup, Myanmar confronts a spike in COVID-19 cases. How are health workers dealing with the twin challenges of a pandemic and a repressive regime?