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July 25 2023
Opinion Pieces
25 July 2023 – It is our right to see the Covid-19 vaccine procurement contracts We are unlikely to be equitably able to access lifesaving, affordable medicines under NHI
5 June 2023 – Opportunities and challenges of leveraging COVID-19 vaccine innovation and technologies for developing sustainable vaccine manufacturing capabilities in Africa
25 March 2023 – It is time for ambitious, transformational change to the epidemic countermeasures ecosystem
6 March 2023 – Open Letter – Collective Voices against Health Xenophobia’s appeal to the health minister Marlise Richter
27 January 2023 – Changing the law on sex work will save lives, we must see it through here
24 August 2022 – Sex work is essential(ly) work” – Feminist sex worker rights advocacy in South Africa
1 July 2022 – Op-ed; Vaccine Equity: A New and Weak WTO Deal on TRIPS is Not Fit for Purpose
18 June 2022 – Opinion: New WTO deal is a slap in the face for poorer countries.
15 June 2022 – South Africa must say no to rich nations and WTO bullying in Geneva.
23 May 2022 – Vaccine Apartheid is racist and wrong.
8 April 2022 – The leaked WTO COVID patent waiver text promises a very bad deal – South Africa owes it to the nations that supported its initial waiver proposal to reject the text and continue negotiations.
30 March 2022 – What is the use of anti-HIV injections when those who need it most can’t use it?
24 March 2022 – It is not too late to achieve global covid-19 vaccine equity.
28 February 2022 – South Africans have a right to see the country’s vaccine contracts and to know what they contain.
17 February 2022 – When secrecy and expert advice collide in a pandemic: Access to information and the National Department of Health’s tardy publication of Ministerial Advisory Committee advisories.
13 December 2021 – Unequal global vaccine coverage is at the heart of the current covid-19 crisis.
3 December 2021 – Time to tackle Covid vaccine inequality in global south.
28 November 2021 – Omicron: Vaccine nationalism will only perpetuate the pandemic.
28 November 2021 – Omicron: Vaccine nationalism will only perpetuate the pandemic | Coronavirus pandemic.
22 October 2021 – ANALYSIS | The pandemic didn’t miss Africa — and the numbers back this up.
21 October 2021 – A confusing COVID caseload: Why Africa’s missing numbers show a different side to the pandemic.
21 October 2021 – Share Vaccine Know How.
21 October 2021 – African lives matter: Covid-19 didn’t miss the continent, as some would conveniently have it — and the numbers back this up.
12 October 2021 – An inconvenient truth: The real reason why Africa is not getting vaccinated.
5 October 2021 – Sex Worker Pride is a way of sex workers showing that they, too, take pride in their work.
27 August 2021 – OP-ED: Leave No One Behind: We must urgently address vaccination of undocumented migrants and asylum seekers. Jo Vearey Rebecca Walker Thea de Gruchy
16 August 2021 – Profiteering from vaccine inequity: a crime against humanity?
21 July 2021 – Leave No One Behind: We must urgently address vaccination of undocumented migrants and asylum seekers.
28 June 2021 – The great vaccine heist: The procurement contracts veil of secrecy violates transparency and public interest.
18 May 2021 –Finding an HIV vaccine: Five lessons from the search for a COVID jab.
12 May 2021 – The TRIPS fandango: Don’t water down the waiver – lives depend on it.
11 May 2021 – Private-public politics: State control crucial for vaccine equity and to stop queue-jumping by the rich.
23 February 2021 – Don’t Let Drug Companies create a system of Vaccine Apartheid.
24 January 2021 – The great Covid-19 Vaccine Heist (Part Two): Moderna – when solidarity is only a word.
21 January 2021 – Op-Ed in Le Monde: Against Covid-19, we must ensure access to vaccines in Africa.
6 September 2020 – Politics, power and patents: ‘Desperate diseases require desperate measures’
8 July 2020 – A Covid-19 vaccine: When ‘solidarity’ meets nationalist profiteering
15 May 2020 – Auditor-General should oversee billions in the Covid-19 Solidarity Fund.
