Thread by @jasonhickel

The G7's promises of charity are *not* a solution to vaccine apartheid. We need justice: waive the patents and enable global South countries to ramp up vaccine production. Our argument in the BMJ: gh.bmj.com/content/6/6/e0…

"Charitable donations are designed to deflect the substantive demands for reform that global South countries are fighting for. This approach will not work, because it is not designed to ‘work.’ If we want to end vaccine apartheid, we need to target the root causes."

"Rich countries and their pharmaceutical companies are using COVAX as a shield to deflect demands for IP waivers. This is an enduring problem with aid: it papers over and distracts our attention away from the underlying structural violence."

"Donor-based approaches are grounded in colonial ideas of aid and dependency, which have failed to serve the health needs of the Majority World or deliver on health equity. This failed model has not promoted health equity in the past and is clearly inadequate in the present."

H/t to my colleagues @drsophieharman @ErfaniParsa @tisaneg @michellemorse @Real_Ironist.