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With 15 million dead & counting, history won't look kindly on Europe’s role in blocking a #TRIPSWaiver & putting pharmaceutical monopolies ahead of an end to the COVID-19 pandemic. EU Mission to WTO, UK Mission Geneva 🇬🇧, EU Trade 🇪🇺: #EndCOVIDMonopolies

Important news indeed. This is particularly relevant for the pandemic treaty negotiations. Netherlands and South-Africa are co-chairs of the negotiation process. Balasubramaniam

📢 Nearly 30,000 people have died every day from #COVID19 since WTO talks on a #TRIPSWaiver💉 began. 20 months later & rich countries continue to refuse poorer countries to produce their own cheaper generic COVID-19 vaccines, tests & treatments 💉 oxfamireland.org/blog/oxfam-ire…

The tools that healthcare workers around the world need to save lives from #COVID19 go far beyond vaccines. That’s why we’re demanding that governments support the #TRIPSWaiver on ALL #COVID19 medical tools, including treatments & tests ⬇️️ msfaccess.org/3-reasons-why-…

The UN’s Special Rapporteur on Racism Ms. E. Tendayi Achiume reminds WTO delegates that: "unequal access to COVID-19 prevention, containment and treatment technologies violates the fundamental human rights principles of equality & non-discrimination." ohchr.org/sites/default/…

Thank you to Senators speaking out today about #TRIPSwaiver ‘It is adding insult to injury that the 🇮🇪government continues to delay access to C19 vaccines in low income countries by blocking #TRIPSwaiver while claiming vaccine hesitancy is what needs to be addressed’ Alice-Mary Higgins

Ministers meeting at WTO for #MC12, including the delegation from Ireland 🇮🇪 , must demand an effective and meaningful TRIPS Waiver covering all medical products 💉💊😷. Read the letter signed by +150 organisations 👇

Bleak assessment on the vaccines access deal that the UK is describing as 'very good': "It is hard to imagine anything with fewer benefits than this, as a response to a massive global health emergency." keionline.org/37830

“There is no clearer way of telling someone they are unequal than denying them access to healthcare” Profound opening from Fintan O'Toole and incredibly apt in the aftermath of a shameful decision on the #TRIPSwaiver #RuralWONCA22 WONCA World Rural Health Conference 2022

“I’m furious about last night’s WTO meeting The lives of doctors in low-income countries are being valued less than the lives of doctors in high income countries In Ireland over 62% of people are COVID boosted. Less than 1% in low income countries” rousing from @Robbie_Lawlor

“We have entered into an unwritten Faustian pact. We don’t frighten the gift horses.” This is a must read article from Fintan O'Toole, eloquently outlining how Ireland’s reliance on pharma is at odds with healthcare provision

Bernard Mallee The Irish Times IPHA “To question the framework that catalysed the development of vaccines for Covid-19…is not a good signal for investment in the medicines of the future” is what your industry said following the WTO decision on HIV drugs in 2003 & you went on to mint obscene $$$ on PrEP & PEP

Ann Nolan Bernard Mallee The Irish Times IPHA Fintan O'Toole Cliona O'Farrelly Cliona Ni Cheallaigh @susanmsmith Trinity Centre for Global Health, TCD James Larkin Doctors4VaccineEquity Students4vaccineequity david_mcnair @peoplesvaccine Exactly! I'm so tired of pharma's broken-record argument that they're the only place where #pharmacutical #innovation can happen. Untrue and disingenuous for an industry that benefits from huge public subsidies, makes supernormal profits and plays the IP system to their advantage

Susi Geiger Ann Nolan Bernard Mallee The Irish Times IPHA Fintan O'Toole Cliona O'Farrelly Cliona Ni Cheallaigh @susanmsmith Trinity Centre for Global Health, TCD James Larkin Doctors4VaccineEquity Students4vaccineequity david_mcnair @peoplesvaccine 20 years ago, Yusuf Hamied and Cipla could make and distribute an AIDS drug through MSF at less than a dollar per person per day when the western companies were selling it at $30-40.

This is medical apartheid. The gross inequalities that characterized the global rollout of first-gen COVID vaccines are being replicated again today when it comes to the distribution of promising new treatments and diagnostic tools. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

“The mistakes we saw during the #COVID19 pandemic are already being repeated” - Dr. Boghuma Kabisen Titanji When will we learn that viruses don't respect borders? #Monkeypox, #COVID and others thrive off short-sighted, self-interested protectionism. abcnews.go.com/Health/wireSto…

Interesting and informative article on current challenges with #Monkeypox vaccine production and distribution Bavarian Nordic @peoplesvaccine HIV Ireland Man2Man Programme ACT UP Dublin healthpolicy-watch.news/exclusive-chin…

The Lancet Commission has published a report on lessons from the COVID pandemic. The report details the utter failure of rich country leaders and pharma companies to ensure the tools needed to end the pandemic were accessible to everyone, everywhere. thelancet.com/journals/lance…

Today Oxfam Ireland & 16 other civil society groups wrote to Micheál Martin. We urged him to support the extension of the recent WTO TRIPS Agreement to cover COVID treatments & diagnostics. This is vital, as stark global COVID inequities persist. 🧵 oxfamireland.org/sites/default/…

Little has changed, unfortunately - and we are all paying the price, but especially those in countries where vaccines are not readily available.