Dig: Global Vaccine Apartheid with Achal Prabhala

Jacobin Radio

Mar 20, 2021•1 hr 49 min

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Episode description

Astra Taylor interviews Achal Prabhala on emerging global vaccine apartheid: from the neoliberal turn handing the pharmaceutical industry global patents to today's government-funded vaccines put under private pharma control.

Groups fighting global vaccine apartheid

Public Citizen: citizen.org/topic/safe-affordable-drugs-devices/global-access-to-medicines

MSF: msfaccess.org

Prep4All: prep4all.org

People's Vaccine Alliance: peoplesvaccine.org

Recent work by Prabhala

nytimes.com/2020/12/07/opinion/covid-vaccines-patents.html

nytimes.com/2021/02/05/opinion/covid-vaccines-china-russia.html

theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/oct/15/peoples-vaccine-coronavirus-covid-wto

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