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      Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman

      Nobel Prize for mRNA Researchers Shows Power of Public Funding for Vaccines, Campaigners Say

      "Public funding delivers incredible medical advances and that should be a priority for all countries, but pharmaceutical companies cannot be trusted to share technology with the world."

      Jake Johnson
      Oct 02, 2023

      Scientists Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for research that paved the way for the messenger RNA vaccines against Covid-19—critical work that, as campaigners quickly pointed out, benefited from substantial U.S. government funding.

      Dr. Mohga Kamal-Yanni, policy co-lead for the People's Vaccine Alliance, said in a statement that "this award challenges the claim that it was solely big pharmaceutical companies who saved the world from Covid-19."

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      South African President Cyril Ramaphosa

      Covid Vaccine Contracts Show How Big Pharma 'Held South Africa to Ransom'

      "We were bullied into unfair and undemocratic terms," said one public health campaigner. "And we must ask: did they do it to other countries, too?"

      Jake Johnson
      Sep 05, 2023

      Newly disclosed Covid-19 vaccine procurement contracts that the South African government signed with pharmaceutical companies included "overwhelmingly one-sided" terms that favored drug companies' bottom lines over public health, according to a review conducted by a coalition of experts and advocates.

      Last month, a South African court ruled that the nation's government must make its vaccine contracts with pharmaceutical companies public after the Health Justice Initiative (HJI) sued in an effort to shine light on the secretive agreements.

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      A medical officer administers a Covid-19 vaccine jab to a man at the Nakuru County Referral and Teaching Hospital in Kenya on June 6, 2022.

      As WHO Ends Emergency, World Urged Not to Repeat 'Mistakes of This Pandemic in the Next'

      "The global response to Covid-19 failed the world's most vulnerable, prioritizing windfall profits ahead of public health," said one expert, calling on world leaders to "make structural changes in global health."

      Jessica Corbett
      May 05, 2023

      The World Health Organization's declaration Friday that Covid-19 is no longer a global health emergency elicited fresh calls for learning from the pandemic and dramatically expanding access to prevention and treatment for diseases in the future.

      "Covid-19 may no longer be classified as the highest level of international emergency, but the virus has not gone away," said Dr. Mohga Kamal-Yanni, policy co-lead of the People's Vaccine Alliance, a global coalition working toward equitable access to medical technologies that help to prevent and respond to Covid-19 and future pandemics.

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