BREAKING: BIG PHARMA CAUGHT TRYING TO THWART @WHO & PAN-AFRICAN EFFORTS TO MAKE COVID-19 VACCINES

@BioNTech-hired consultancy kENUP called for termination of WHO-backed MRNA hub whilst promoting BioNTech’s ‘paternalistic and unworkable’ proposal.

This is #VaccineApartheid
Their claims forced African biotech companies to waste time defending their work:

“I don’t understand why kENUP... tries to undermine Afrigen’s work...It drains energy that I could have spent making a vaccine”
- Petro Terblanche, MD of Afrigen Biologics and Vaccines
Any remaining pharma apologists can be left in no doubt.

Their priorities are profits, profits, profits.

People's lives, global economies, the disruptions caused by the pandemic, simply do not measure up.

“To push for the termination of this life-saving project in order to protect the interests of pharmaceutical companies is shameful, at a time when over 90 per cent of people in the poorest countries still haven’t been fully vaccinated."
- Anna Marriott, @oxfamgb
Pharma companies have refused to support the mRNA hub, unashamedly prolonguing the pandemic.

"The process of making a COVID vaccine would have taken a year with the[ir] help, but without them it will take 3" - Martin Friede, coordinator of Initiative for Vaccine Research at WHO
This is further proof that world leaders leaving pharma companies in charge of COVID vaccinations is cowardly and deadly.

If they do not act urgently, "big pharma will try to bully and intimidate global south manufacturers into submission” - Fatima Hassan of @HealthJusticeIn
"The failure of rich country governments to step in and break these all-powerful monopolies is unforgiveable. They must end their blind faith that profit-hungry pharma corporations will voluntarily do the right thing by humanity.”

Read our full response: bit.ly/3Lhjc8e
Brilliant investigation by @madlendavies for @bmj_latest on how WHO efforts to bring vaccine manufacturing to Africa are being undermined by the drug industry.

We cannot rely on the pharmaceutical industry.
We need a #PeoplesVaccine

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Jul 14, 2021
Big Pharma Greed is not new.

From insulin prices to HIV treatment access, monopolies in the face of suffering are business as usual.

We have our #EyesOnPharmaGreed
Do you?
#PeoplesVaccine
Big Pharma companies don't want to talk to us.

So we talked to @JolyRubs instead.

Every stat levied at him in this 'interview' is true.

We have our #EyesOnPharmaGreed

BigPhama have shown they can't be relied upon to do the right thing. They must be compelled to.

100+ international IP academics signed a letter in support of the TRIPS waiver, providing academic justification for the temporary Waiver in pandemic times:
lse.ac.uk/News/Latest-ne…
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Jul 13, 2021
LIVE: Wednesday 14th: 10am BST

Members of the #PeoplesVaccine alliance and more to talk vaccine access inequality, Merkel's visit to the US and how we speed up global #COVID vaccinations.

Join us 👇
On current trends it will take 57 years to get many countries vaccinated.
It's completely gross.
@nickdearden75 of @GlobalJusticeUK
#PeoplesVaccine
Oxygen demand in Africa is now 50% greater than it was at the peak last year....
Some countries like Israel are starting to offer booster shots... whereas in many countries, even health workers have not received a shot.
It's ridiculous on so many levels
Maaza of @Afri_Alliance
Read 15 tweets
May 5, 2021
#PEOPLESVACCINE ALLIANCE IMMEDIATE RELEASE

"This is the decision the world needed: by backing a waiver of intellectual property protections for COVID-19 vaccines the Biden Administration can increase the global supply of vaccines and deal a deathblow to the pandemic".

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"In doing so, the Administration has shown it can listen to the voices of over 100 countries, the World Health Organization, former leaders, public health experts, Nobel Laureates and activists around the world..."

2/8
"...and countered the shameful behavior of big pharmaceutical monopolies which are placing profits over the right to health of billions of people."

"While a bold step towards a people's vaccine, this is a first step."

3/8
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