UK, the EU & Germany, Norway and Switzerland are major opponents of the TRIPS Waiver on COVID-19 related vaccine, medicine or equipment. Putting profits before people is unnecessarily claiming many lives in the poor counties like Lesotho. #NoCovidMonopolies
Lesotho has co-sponsored the formal request made by India and South Africa to @wto to allow countries to choose to suspend IP on any COVID-19 related medicines, vaccines, and other health tools during the pandemic and until global herd immunity is reached. #NoCovidMonopolies
Wealthy countries hoarded PPE and vaccines at the expense of the rest of the world. Now are blocking a proposal to suspend IP enforcement that would allow more countries to manufacture & access #COVID19 medical tools. #NoCovidMonopolies#TRIPSwaiver@LDCWatch2001@MatjamaThabang
(🇬🇧 UK, 🇩🇪 DE 🇪🇺 EU 🇨🇭SW 🇳🇴 NO) are continuing to block the #TRIPSWaiver proposal to speed up access to #COVID19 treatments & vaccines for everyone.
#NoCovidMonopolies
#BigPharma kept saying there's no capacity in the Global South to make such #COVID19 vaccines, this deal proves it's wrong. But it doesn't replace a #TRIPSwaiver & open knowledge sharing since they'll still remain fully in control (contract manufacturing) https://t.co/WnmAanMOww
@NapoleonCatCom estimates #Lesotho has 524,600, 504,600, 35,000 and 67,340 users for Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and LinkedIn respectively. Comms regulator @official_lca plans to register all social media users with 100+ followers. https://t.co/MgyKU9aPfe
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EVENT: Future of funding for think tanks with Goran Buldioski @OpenSociety, Julie LaFrance, Michael Schwarz @MercatorDE Henry Alt-Haaker @BoschStiftung Sherine Ghoneim @ERFlatest https://t.co/NfvsN5NG9I
Benin’s Eloi Laourou, Nigeria's @NOIweala and Egypt’s Hamid Mamdouh are among those vying to succeed @WTODGAZEVEDO as Director General of @wto https://t.co/5Rh5m6fXd1
Question for #Lesotho twitter: If I wanted to teach early #Sesotho origin stories, any particular places I should look?
My expertise is more on the 20th century, but I wanted my American students to think more deeply about origin stories in different cultures.
Kea leboha!
Public-Private Partnership post-mortem: What went wrong — and what went right — about #Lesotho's only specialist hospital. @PascalinahK reports. #globalhealth https://t.co/hDavxp9IQ3