Pandemic Transparency: Access the Vaccine Contracts and Analysis
On 17 August 2023, the Pretoria High Court ruled in favour of HJI’s bid to compel South Africa’s National Department of Health to provide access to the COVID-19 vaccine procurement contracts.
Here are the findings of a multi-stakeholder analysis of the four contracts, led by the Health Justice Initiative, along with the contracts themselves.
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“One-Sided”: A multi-stakeholder analysis of South Africa’s COVID-19 vaccine procurement contracts
Following the release of South Africa’s COVID-19 vaccine procurement contracts, the Health Justice Initiative worked with a multi-stakeholder group to conduct this analysis of the four agreements. We found the terms and conditions are overwhelmingly one-sided and favour multinational corporations, placing governments in the Global South, and in turn, the people living in these countries, with unusually hefty demands and conditions, including a lack of transparency, and very little leverage against late or no delivery of supplies or inflated prices resulting in gross profiteering.
