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Big pharma must be forced to prioritise welfare of humanity
ROGER McKENZIE looks at how lobbying by powerful cartels buys favour from politicians to the detriment of public health
Nurses inoculate a boy against Covid-19 in Uruguay. 'Making sure that the richest nations do the right thing and take all possible steps to get more vaccines into more arms in the global South is the most immediate thing that needs to happen'
ANGUS REID explains the significance of Cuba’s egalitarian in letter and spirit Family Code and the pertinent lessons it holds for democracies anywhere in the world
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NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
WHILE the richest nations of the world debate whether or not a fourth dose of the Covid-19 vaccine is required, many people in the global South are yet to receive even their first jab.
Vaccine apartheid is real. This is not a figment of the imagination or some kind of special pleading. Real people are dying because of the hoarding of vaccine doses by the richest nations.
Even when offered the opportunity to fix this by making big pharma, the powerful pharmaceutical companies, share their vaccine patents and technologies, the rich nations choose not to.
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