WEBINAR: Does the 1995 WTO TRIPS mechanism for encouraging innovation still match the realities of our times?
Join us on 25th April 2022, 1200–1330 hrs UCT to discuss 'Alternative models for incentivising pharmaceutical innovation for Africa'
Registration: https://t.co/mrGbgxsfp8
NEWS – Researchers in pivotal African clinical trial denied access to key #COVID19 antiviral drug, frustrating efforts to test the treatment in African populations and in combination with therapies that could potentially expand its utility on the continent
https://t.co/aTYZGtkDtO
JENA on community involvement in #SDG4: "A top-down, technocratic approach will not be helpful. We need to empower local communities to drive this agenda and support the democratisation of management, conservation and restoration processes." On page 15 at: https://t.co/DapUiD5yFV
NEWS: Groups urge Biden to reject potential WTO #TRIPSwaiver 'concept' on #COVID19 vaccine barriers. Urge Biden to redouble US efforts to negotiate an “actual waiver” to boost COVID-19 vaccine production.
#PeoplesVaccine
https://t.co/0mgefJGKYa
@JENA_Africa and its UK partners is lobbying the UK Government to rechannel more of its IMF Special Drawing Rights allocation and lead other rich nations to do the same to combat climate change and biodiversity loss in Sub-Saharan Africa. Read policy brief https://t.co/QUqGSl89zJ
The most important climate summit of our generation is about to start -- let’s send to our leaders the largest call to action, ever. https://t.co/j60wpsstqd
One child is orphaned every 12 seconds due to a COVID-19-associated death, and the toll is growing. This can change if Germany and the EU choose to protect life and children over corporate profits and support the TRIPS waiver for more vaccine production #peoplesvaccines
President Joe Biden’s July 15, White House summit with German Chancellor Angela Merkel will be an epic moral failure unless it ends Germany’s blockage of the TRIPS waiver to save millions of lives
https://t.co/qV6dtawPbY
Africa left behind.
A third wave of COVID-19 infections is seriously ravaging some nations in sub-Saharan Africa
as the continent falls way behind the rest of the world in vaccinations 💉🦠
Read Charlie Chilufya's, SJ, article and learn more ⬇️
https://t.co/zLWsH0epe2
Covid vaccines can save billions of lives, but Germany is standing in the way of vaccinating the world.
@POTUS must tell Chancellor Merkel to #FreeTheVaccine and support the TRIPS Waiver.
No regulation should continue to allow pharmaceutical companies to profit from the pandemic by enforcing monopoly power while everyone else has made efforts and sacrifices to overcome the crisis.
Congratulations to the Jesuit Centre for Ecology and Development in Malawi, which has won the @miseancara Climate Action Award!
JCED works with local communities to promote the protection of the natural environment and the creation of sustainable livelihoods.
Sunday's reading (Mt 25:14-30): Deploy every gift (talent), health, education, time, money, family, friends,... to BE genuinely compassionate, kind, honest and loving. In the end, what humanity and God will recognise and praise is who were were, our compassion, love and kindness.