Steve Gloyd

Professor of Global Health @uwdgh; Activist;
Founder and Senior Advisor @hai_1987.

[Steve Gloyd @stevegloyd]

Rich country support of big pharma greed is creating a 'forever epidemic' according to Vidya Krishnan. COVAX is flawed, Charity is not justice, nor is it working. https://t.co/L0V5Bz5NRH

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Winnie Byanyima, ED of UNAIDS: "World leaders have made big promises to vaccinate the world, yet they have failed to deliver on all promises...That’s why we have vaccine apartheid. We need a new paradigm..on sharing the technology....action, not promises.” https://t.co/Ff89WR3ZO5

[Steve Gloyd @stevegloyd]

"It's a cartel that kills people" says Asia Russell of HealthGAP - on big Pharma's threats of retaliation against countries for invoking (WTO accepted) compulsory licensing for COVID vaccine production. Illuminating article by Ria Modak - In These Times. https://t.co/e8GbUZVGkd

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Pramila Jayapal says Germany's opposition to the COVID TRIPS waiver "threatens the lives of millions of people around the world," undermining WHO efforts to help set hubs to provide tools for countries to produce their own COVID-19 vaccines. https://t.co/4GmCWHuwls

[Steve Gloyd @stevegloyd]

Trevor Noah should know better, says Patrick Gauthara in Nairobi. The Palestinian reality is continuous oppressive occupation and Apartheid, not disproportionality of conflict. Even Desmond Tutu and Jimmy Carter have called out Israel's Apartheid crimes. https://t.co/nH0c7HfJ9S

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COVID Vaccine Apartheid persists. Need to keep up the struggle in Europe. @democracynow https://t.co/UC4hPqx1dq

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More on COVID VaccineApartheid. Lee Fang of The Intercept interviewed on Democracy Now! today. Says Biden admin may cave to Big Pharma and Gates lobbying by blocking TRIPS waiver. https://t.co/oWABzNysPz

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Stop Vaccine Apartheid! Biden needs pressure now to support COVID vaccine TRIPS waiver at 5 May WTO meeting. Walden Bello in Philippines explains Big Pharma & Gates lobbying and Biden admin conflicts of interest in NYTimes op-ed. today.https://t.co/zsEm5TUMnB
#vaccineApartheid

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Seattle City Council calls on Biden to support TRIPs waiver for COVID vaccine. Council rejects "the status quo of profit-driven vaccine apartheid" says Council Member Kshama Sawant. #VaccineApartheid https://t.co/ueQ8OIDtmM

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"Worst display of national selfishness in modern history." "Restrictive agreements...putting profits before life...demand justice in this morally bankrupt system." Read a powerful article on #VaccineApartheid by Nanjala Nyabola in The Nation 19 April. "https://t.co/ncxt8tJ8Za

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Tim Schwab receives 'Izzy Award' (I.F. Stone) for his investigation of the Gates Foundation published in The Nation. Good read on philanthrocapitalism and global health policy. https://t.co/4QNPhbQKAz

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Shame! Achal Prabala reports that Oxford initially wanted open access to its COVID vaccine technology, but Gates Foundation & US Govt pushed for exclusive "catastrophic" agreement with Astra-Zeneca, preventing wide tech transfer. WTO must waive IP rights! https://t.co/XDqxTETJWP

[Steve Gloyd @stevegloyd]

Stop vaccine apartheid! Let's avoid what WHO DG Tedros calls a "catastrophic moral failure." Reminiscent of AIDS treatment apartheid of the 1990s. Huge unused capacity exists to produce vaccines in -and for- the Global South. #VaccineApartheid https://t.co/Vnu5DWYbZZ

[Steve Gloyd @stevegloyd]

"Peoples' Vaccines." Moderna & Pfizer vaccines relied on US govt patent - to be issued March 30. Provides big leverage to force companies to share patented technologies with global vaccine producers. Good opportunity for Biden and team to use it. https://t.co/hzF9psi5zD

[Steve Gloyd @stevegloyd]

"Hell on earth" in Yemen. Nina Elbagir got into Yemen and reports on massive starvation. It's a global emergency. US needs to stop unconscionable Saudi blockade now.

#YemenCantWait #Yemen #SaudiArabia
https://t.co/HLTWDdZgCx

[Democracy Now! @democracynow]

Millions of working women around the world mark #InternationalWomensDay as poverty and violence rise during the pandemic. “We are in a deeper crisis and we are facing a virus far deadlier than COVID,” said @JomsSalvador, an advocate with @gabrielaphils. https://t.co/fRwP3baftH

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Bill Gates continues to protect Big Pharma in the COVID era. Nicholas Kulish's NYTimes podcast details disturbing way Gates has defined strategies in GH, avoiding structural change. #philanthrocapitalism #VaccineApartheid https://t.co/57sVlWLFTF

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If Ngozi Okonjo can move on COVID Vaccine TRIP waivers like she does on the dance floor, we can hope she gets the US, Europe, and Big Pharma to move with her. https://t.co/3b52m68r0B

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Once again - profits over people with Big Pharma. SA's de Gama calls for compulsory licensing over voluntary licensing of COVID vaccines. @JoeBiden should support waiving intellectual property rules on Monday's WTO meeting. @NOIweala https://t.co/nRXhejA1EU

[Steve Gloyd @stevegloyd]

Will the new Nigerian WTO Director General, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, push for patent waivers on COVID vaccine - so that other countries with available capacity can produce the vaccines?

As a DG from the Global South, we have great expectations!

#VaccineApartheid #vaccineequity