The People's Vaccine Profile picture
Coalition of 80+ organisations demanding that COVID-19 vaccines, treatments & tests be freely available to everyone, everywhere. #PeoplesVaccine
Dec 17, 2022 5 tweets 2 min read
Today is the deadline for governments to reach a deal to tackle the intellectual property barriers that prevent low and middle-income countries from accessing COVID-19 medicines and tests.

But, last night, nearly 3 years into the pandemic, @WTO members asked for more time. 1/ The WTO started discussing intellectual property barriers for COVID-19 medicines and tests in October 2020.

As many as 17 million people are estimated to have died in that time.

To say that more time is needed to consider the issue is utter nonsense. 2/
Feb 10, 2022 8 tweets 4 min read
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
Jul 14, 2021 5 tweets 3 min read
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

Jul 13, 2021 15 tweets 9 min read
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
May 5, 2021 9 tweets 2 min read
#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".

THREAD "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