Delhi’s healthcare crisis: a wake-up call ahead of elections
Ahead of Delhi Assembly elections on February 5, JSA Delhi warns about persisting health inequities and calls for meaningful health policies
Patents, profits and squabbles for share in the pie – Moderna’s pandemic story
Moderna’s filing for patents in South Africa puts a question mark on its intentions of honoring the pledge that it will not enforce patents during the pandemic. Activists fear that this may jeopardize the WHO’s technology sharing hub
Make WHO-recommended new COVID-19 drugs accessible, affordable, demands MSF
US pharma giant Eli Lilly has the patent for Baricitinib, which will affect its availability and accessibility. MSF has called on governments to take immediate steps to ensure that patent monopolies do not stand in the way of access to this drug
Cuba shows an alternative to Big Pharma hegemony through global solidarity
Cuba puts people before profits – showing the world an alternative to the monopolistic practices of Big Pharma. It promotes a public health system, state-funded research and shows global solidarity through tech transfer and vaccine delivery to developing countries
India’s fight against TB: Govt’s eerie silence over worsening situation, drug stock-outs
While India continues its poor performance in the global fight against TB, additional challenges are emerging in the form of Delamanid stock-outs and shortage of testing kits. Despite repeated inquiries from activists, the government keeps mum
Can poor countries succeed in vaccinating their population?
Public outcry in South Africa helped force Johnson & Johnson to retain the vaccines produced in the country for domestic use instead of being shipped to Europe. The Indian civil society has initiated a similar effort as the Global South looks for alternatives
Big pharma — Maximum earnings, minimum responsibilities
The COVID-19 pandemic has again exposed the true nature of capitalism with profit being the primary driver irrespective of the rising inequalities
David Sanders (1945-2019) and the struggle for right to health
David Sanders, who passed away on August 30, was passionate about participatory socialist democracy as a way to improve health and reduce inequality.