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27 Dec, 3 tweets, 2 min read
#1Country1Plan
1 week ago: "...with growing concern that medical aids & the private sector will snap up available Covid-19 vaccines for SA, the HJI is now considering legal action ...(re) plans to ensure equitable access to the vaccine" @HealthJusticeIn

dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-1…
@SAHPRA1 will probably have to seriously consider *conditional registration* to cater for national equity, and expedite dossier reviews...
Make no mistake, rich countries pre-bought millions of dosages (via APAs) & drug companies are (mostly) refusing to pool technology/share vaccine know-how/pledge fair pricing beyond June 2021.

This is self-created scarcity.

Hence, compulsory licensing, now. The time has come.

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Fatima Hassan Profile picture
28 Dec
Can the media rather also interview and question the front runner vaccine companies please, about pricing, access, advance orders and tech transfer or pooling- we dont need to really know again how the alcohol industry feels...

#CompulsoryLicenses
Will they share their vaccine know-how? Why not?
Will they issue voluntary licenses to manufacturers to scale up production in the global south?
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8 Dec
If *you* want the economy to *open*, travel to resume, businesses to flourish, health care systems to not collapse, education to continue, then how do you defend patent monopolies in a pandemic? Direct causal link to reduced access, higher pricing & rationing.

#NoCovidMonopolies
And IF TRIPS waiver proposal does not work because rich countries wish to remain barriers to potential life saving interventions, then in THIS pandemic we expect our @GovernmentZA to issue compulsory licenses.
Benevolence & hope are not enforceable, rights are.
#NoCovidMonopolies
Also, can @ParliamentofRSA pass the Patents Act amendment already.
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3 Dec
COVAX limitations aside, @SolidarityRSA is now involved in vaccine$ matters? It is not a public body, not @COVID_19_ZA and has no real oversight. They briefed @ParliamentofRSA but not sure if @AuditorGen_SA is overseeing public funds/ purpose/spend/procurement.

#1Country1Plan
Please, #COVAX IS NOT THE SOLUTION TO THE WORLDS VACCINE ACCESS & EQUITY PROBLEM, IN MANY CASES, IT IS WORSENING IT. A POKER GAME. WITH $ CHIPS.

IT *LEAVES* POWER WITH PHRMA AND BUSINESS.

Where is the power...? Where the people are not.

#nopandemicprofiteering
#1Country1Plan
Critical issue for the public to appreciate is that #COVAX is not an elected global institution, it is voluntary- a voluntary pooling mechanism that lets you in if you have money & willing to accept patent rights claims, & gives some charity dosages for those deemed very poor.
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12 Jul
Actually, *we* should be *angry* because we don't have a functioning health system- insufficient ambulances, beds, oxygen, test kits, PPE, treatment. Poor social relief, ltd IP & price controls, inadequate state capacity, minimal transparency & procurement hijacking.
#Covid19SA
We have not even commenced a proper and comprehensive legislative reform programme, given the impact of #Covid19SA
We have not been clear about the IP tipping point either.
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