End the Pandemic Everywhere

Feb
6:01pm
End the Pandemic Everywhere

By People's Action
We have an opportunity to give millions of people vaccines and end the pandemic everywhere.  Yet as it is, rich countries are putting pharmaceutical profits first. As a result, millions of people in the Global South may not get access to the COVID-19 vaccine until 2024. This is not only an egregious human rights and racial justice issue, it’s a threat to the safety of global north residents and threatens the entire global economy
Public health experts in the US support a waiver proposed by South Africa and India on intellectual property rules at the World Trade Organization to increase manufacturing capacity of COVID-19 vaccines. More than 100 countries  support this initiative.
The US, unfortunately, has been one of the key roadblocks. Then candidate Biden committed to not let patents get in the way of global access and now we need to ramp up the pressure to ask him to follow through on that commitment before the next WTO general meeting on March 1-2nd. Join thousands of activists from around the world and demand the Biden administration save millions of lives and end the pandemic everywhere. Cosponsored by Health Gap, Center for Popular Democracy, Fair World Project, People's Health Movement, Right to Health Action, Iowa CCI, Take Action Minnesota, The People's Lobby, American Friends Service Committee, Be a Hero, Democratic Socialists of America International Committee, Public Citizen, and Partners in Health.
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