How a Global Vaccine Apartheid Is Hindering the Fight Against Covid
The Global North’s stockpile of Covid-19 vaccines won’t eradicate the virus – but it does expose the reality of capitalism’s deep international inequalities.
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Beauty Dhlamini
Beauty Dhlamini is a Global Health scholar with a focus on health inequalities. She works with community and grassroot organisations and co-hosts the podcast Mind the Health Gap.
How the NHS Uses Precarity as a Weapon Against Worker Organising
Despite staff shortages, workers on different contracts in the NHS are being pitted against each other for shifts – a tactic designed to prevent them from organising effectively to improve conditions.
Vaccine Billionaires Show Why Medicine Can’t Be Left to the Market
Since the start of the pandemic, nine new billionaires have been minted from vaccines funded in large part by public money – meanwhile, citizens of poorer countries are still waiting for their first dose.
Bill Gates’ Monopoly Medicine
The Gates Foundation claims to have fought for access to medicine during the pandemic, but its defence of intellectual property rights has had the opposite impact – and exposed the limits of philanthrocapitalism.