<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Peoples Health Dispatch</b> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:health@peoplesdispatch.org">health@peoplesdispatch.org</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 9:36 PM<br>Subject: Bulletin #21: Into the third year of the Covid-19 pandemic<br>To: <<a href="mailto:ana@phmovement.org">ana@phmovement.org</a>><br></div><br><br><u></u>
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News of a tentative TRIPS waiver compromise
allegedly penned by a group of four countries - the US, the EU, South Africa and
India - was published just around the time when the world was entering the third
year of the Covid-19 pandemic. The text was hailed by some as an important
breakthrough for boosting vaccine equity, yet most agree that the document is
completely inadequate t</span>
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<div style="margin:0 0 1.5em;padding:0"><img src="https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/content/images/2022/03/people_s_health_dispatch_double_size-2--1.jpg" alt="" style="border:none;max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto;width:auto;height:auto" width="600" height="71"></div><h2 id="m_2200610997494010035this-fortnight" style="margin-top:0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-weight:600;margin:1.5em 0 0.5em 0;font-size:32px;line-height:1.22em">This fortnight </h2><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em">News of a tentative <a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/03/17/compromised-trips-waiver-will-prolong-pandemic-inequalities/" style="color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">TRIPS waiver compromise</a> allegedly penned by a group of four countries - the US, the EU, South Africa and India - was published just around the time when the world was entering the third year of the Covid-19 pandemic. The text was hailed by some as an important breakthrough for boosting vaccine equity, yet most agree that the document is completely inadequate to respond to actual needs.</p><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em">The EU continues to influence drugs policies in Africa by pushing for the establishment of an <a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/03/17/push-for-more-regulation-and-quality-controls-may-further-complicate-medicine-supply-in-africa/" style="color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">African Medicines Agency</a>. Judging from information that is currently available, the move could easily hinder access instead of making the process of drug regulation more simple and navigable for countries in the region.</p><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em">To see concrete improvements in the field of access to medicines, we still need the original TRIPS waiver to be passed at WTO. As the example of <a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/03/07/patents-profits-and-squabbles-for-share-in-the-pie-modernas-pandemic-story/?fbclid=IwAR2oOhGS-RQ1dRZjDoyO318Gc7VKGru6OBT3jjvMBEK40M721qaDaMgArME" style="color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Moderna’s </a>approach to sharing technology and know–how has shown, there is little hope for pharmaceutical companies to take a proactive role in supporting local production.</p><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em">After the Constitutional Court of Colombia made an important ruling on abortion legislation in February, we spoke to <a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/03/16/women-in-colombia-continue-their-struggle-for-reproductive-rights/" style="color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Ana Cristina Gonzalez Velez</a> from the Roundtable for Life and Health of Women about the intersections of the health and feminist movements in Colombia. In <i>Data speaks</i>, we bring a map of the world’s abortion laws.</p><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em">Health workers, especially women, continue to be exposed to enormous pressures in situations of conflict. In a recent webinar organized by the People’s Health Movement, activists from Palestine and the Philippines met to discuss the imprisonment of <a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/03/17/imprisoned-palestinian-health-activist-shatha-odeh-is-a-beacon-of-resistance-globally/" style="color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Shatha Odeh</a> and Naty Castro.</p><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em">Strikes in the health and care sectors continue to be the main tool for workers’ to protect their rights in the latest phase of the pandemic. We bring articles on industrial actions in <a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/03/17/health-and-care-workers-in-slovenia-fight-for-equal-rights/" style="color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Slovenia </a>and <a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/03/14/cleaners-at-great-ormond-street-hospital-in-london-win-nhs-contracts/" style="color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">the UK</a>, as well as on the injunction against the strike planned by health workers in <a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/03/04/new-zealand-employment-court-passes-injunction-to-scuttle-health-workers-strike/" style="color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">New Zealand</a>.</p><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em">In a new <a href="https://youtu.be/jGiM6efI3jk" style="color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">video interview</a>, People’s Health Dispatch spoke to Yogesh Jain and Sarah Nabia, editor and co-editor of the book <i>Covid-19: A view from the margins</i>, who told us more about the importance of recording people’s personal stories and experiences from the margin for building a more complete picture of the pandemic.</p><hr style="display:block;width:100%;margin:3em 0;padding:0;height:1px;border:0;border-top:1px solid #e5eff5"><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em"><b style="font-weight:700"><a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/03/17/compromised-trips-waiver-will-prolong-pandemic-inequalities/" style="color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Compromised TRIPS Waiver will prolong pandemic inequalities</a></b></p><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em">As the COVID-19 pandemic turns two, access to medicines movements warn that a recent compromise deal on the TRIPS waiver allegedly outlined by the US, the EU, India and South Africa will not be enough to address existing inequities</p><div style="margin:0 0 1.5em;padding:0"><img src="https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/content/images/2022/03/peoples-vaccine-2.jpg" alt="" style="border:none;max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto;width:auto;height:auto" width="600" height="338"></div><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em"><b style="font-weight:700"><a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/03/17/push-for-more-regulation-and-quality-controls-may-further-complicate-medicine-supply-in-africa/" style="color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Push for more regulation and ‘quality controls’ may further complicate medicine supply in Africa</a></b></p><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em">The creation of the African Medicines Agency with the objective of maintaining European standards for medicines in the continent may hamper the supply of regular and economical versions of medicines in areas where access is already skewed</p><div style="margin:0 0 1.5em;padding:0"><img src="https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/content/images/2022/03/Ebola-in-DRC-2-1024x632-1.jpg" alt="" style="border:none;max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto;width:auto;height:auto" width="600" height="337"></div><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em"><b style="font-weight:700"><a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/03/07/patents-profits-and-squabbles-for-share-in-the-pie-modernas-pandemic-story/?fbclid=IwAR2oOhGS-RQ1dRZjDoyO318Gc7VKGru6OBT3jjvMBEK40M721qaDaMgArME" style="color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Patents, profits and squabbles for share in the pie – Moderna’s pandemic story</a></b></p><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em">Moderna’s filing for patents in South Africa puts a question mark on its intentions of honoring the pledge that it will not enforce patents during the pandemic. Activists fear that this may jeopardize the WHO’s technology sharing hub</p><div style="margin:0 0 1.5em;padding:0"><img src="https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/content/images/2022/03/moderna.png" alt="" style="border:none;max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto;width:auto;height:auto" width="600" height="338"></div><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em"><a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/03/16/women-in-colombia-continue-their-struggle-for-reproductive-rights/" style="color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><b style="font-weight:700">Women in Colombia continue their struggle for reproductive rights</b></a></p><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em">Ana Gonzalez Velez from the Roundtable for Life and Health of Women talks about the recent constitutional ruling in favor of decriminalization of abortion in Colombia and what lies ahead</p><div style="margin:0 0 1.5em;padding:0"><img 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the country said they would be on a two-day strike starting March 14 despite earlier warnings from the Ministry of Health against the protests.</div><div class="m_2200610997494010035kg-bookmark-metadata" style="display:flex;margin-top:14px;color:#15212a;font-size:13px;font-weight:400"><img src="https://globalvoices.org/wp-content/gv-static/img/tmpl/favicon-forestgreen/favicon-196x196.png" alt="" style="border:none;max-width:100%;margin-right:8px;width:22px;height:22px" width="22" height="22"><span style="line-height:1.5em">Global Voices</span><span style="overflow:hidden;max-width:240px;line-height:1.5em;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:nowrap"><span style="margin:0 6px">•</span>Arzu Geybullayeva</span></div></div><div class="m_2200610997494010035kg-bookmark-thumbnail" style="min-width:140px;max-width:180px;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-size:cover;background-position:center;border-radius:0 2px 2px 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Physical Violence | NewsClick</div><div style="display:-webkit-box;overflow-y:hidden;margin-top:12px;max-height:40px;color:#738a94;font-size:13px;line-height:1.5em;font-weight:400">The period of the Covid-19 pandemic has witnessed a dramatic worsening of the conditions of ordinary women and girls, made worse by official apathy and patriarchal attitudes of those in power.</div><div class="m_2200610997494010035kg-bookmark-metadata" style="display:flex;margin-top:14px;color:#15212a;font-size:13px;font-weight:400"><img src="https://www.newsclick.in/themes/newsclick/favicon.ico" alt="" style="border:none;max-width:100%;margin-right:8px;width:22px;height:22px" width="22" height="22"><span style="line-height:1.5em">NewsClick</span><span style="overflow:hidden;max-width:240px;line-height:1.5em;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:nowrap"><span style="margin:0 6px">•</span>Jayati Ghosh</span></div></div><div class="m_2200610997494010035kg-bookmark-thumbnail" style="min-width:140px;max-width:180px;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-size:cover;background-position:center;border-radius:0 2px 2px 0;background-image:url('https://www.newsclick.in/sites/default/files/2022-03/WOMEN%20COVID%20IMPACT.PNG')"><img src="https://www.newsclick.in/sites/default/files/2022-03/WOMEN%20COVID%20IMPACT.PNG" alt="" style="border:none;max-width:100%;display:none"></div></a></div><div class="m_2200610997494010035kg-bookmark-card" style="margin:0 0 1.5em;padding:0;width:100%;background:#ffffff;margin-top:0"><a href="https://www.newframe.com/caregivers-advocate-for-migrant-mothers/" style="display:flex;min-height:148px;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Open Sans','Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;border-radius:3px;border:1px solid #e5eff5;color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><div style="display:inline-block;width:100%;padding:20px"><div style="color:#15212a;font-size:15px;line-height:1.5em;font-weight:600">Caregivers advocate for migrant mothers</div><div style="display:-webkit-box;overflow-y:hidden;margin-top:12px;max-height:40px;color:#738a94;font-size:13px;line-height:1.5em;font-weight:400">Home-based caregivers help women navigate Gauteng state hospitals that force pregnant migrants, refugees and asylum seekers to pay for services that should be free.</div><div class="m_2200610997494010035kg-bookmark-metadata" style="display:flex;margin-top:14px;color:#15212a;font-size:13px;font-weight:400"><img src="https://www.newframe.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/cropped-new-frame-pic-270x270.jpg" alt="" style="border:none;max-width:100%;margin-right:8px;width:22px;height:22px" width="22" height="22"><span style="line-height:1.5em">New Frame</span></div></div><div class="m_2200610997494010035kg-bookmark-thumbnail" 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