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ピープルズ・ワクチン連合「ピープルズ・ワクチン連合」のアジアのネットワークからご挨拶差し上げます。
私たちは、全ての国に負担なく購入可能な価格で新型コロナウイルス感染症（COVID-19）のワクチンが提供され、全ての人々に無料で、かつ公平にいきわたるようにすることを求める市民活動家の連合体です。私たちは多様性に富み、急速に成長する連合体となっています。私たちの運動には、COVID-19を経験した人々、健康への権利や人道支援に関わる団体、現役もしくは引退した世界の指導者たち、保健医療従事者、社会運動、市民社会団体、ジャーナリスト、宗教指導者、経済学者、弁護士、そしてその他さまざまな人々が参加しています。
私たちは、世界のCOVID-19ワクチンへのアクセスと接種の規模の拡大がたいへん遅れていることを、とても懸念しています。世界の人口のほとんどが、特に低所得国・中所得国において、未だワクチンへのアクセスができていません。このままのスピードでは、必要な人すべてにワクチンを接種するのに数十年かかることになるかもしれません。
COVID-19のワクチンの知的財産権は大手製薬企業が保有しています。これらの企業は、自ら保有する科学技術を共有することで、大量生産と供給を加速化し、地球全体の利益に資することができるのに、それを拒んでいます。
南アフリカ共和国とインドは、COVID-19パンデミックが収束するまで、世界貿易機関（WTO）が定める知的財産権のルール（貿易関連知的財産権協定（TRIPs））を一時免除する提案を行いました。100ヶ国以上のWHO加盟国と世界中の多くの保健専門家がこの提案を支持しています。これは、パンデミックに終止符を打つうえで死活的に重要かつ必要な措置です。
WTOのTRIPs協定の一部免除とともに、ワクチン製造のノウハウや技術がオープンに共有されることが必要であり、この二つは組み合わされなければなりません。これは、世界保健機関（WHO）が設置している「COVID-19技術アクセス・プール」（C-TAP）を活用することで実現できます。これらの行動により、ワクチンへのアクセスを妨げる元凶となっている深刻な供給不足を引き起こす業界の独占に邪魔されることなく、世界のワクチン製造能力を拡大することができます。
知的財産権の完全な保護と独占は、世界全体へのワクチン接種の取り組みに悪影響を与えており、世界にとって自滅的なものと言えます。人工的に引き起こされた、この世界的な供給不足により、貧しい人々はワクチンにアクセスできず、命を危険にさらすことなく仕事に戻ることができず、深い貧困と苦悩に追い込まれています。南半球の国々がこれまでに貧困削減のために達成してきた成果も、これで帳消しになってしまうかもしれません。
ピープルズ・ワクチン連合アジア・ネットワークは、アジアと南半球の市民の声に耳を傾け、以下の決断をされることを期待して、アジア各国の政府の皆様に呼びかけています。
2021年5月5－6日に予定されているWTOの一般理事会において、「一時的なTRIPS免除」の提案を支持する。
大手製薬会社と富裕国政府が、WHOが主導するCOVID-19技術アクセス・プール（C-TAP）に自発的に参加することを奨励・保証する動きを主導・支持する。

中国、インド、タイをはじめとするアジアの国々は、ワクチンを製造する能力を有しています。アジア地域には世界有数のジェネリック医薬品産業があります。技術やノウハウが共有されさえすれば、アジアに拠点を置く企業は、他国の新たな製造能力を迅速に支援することができ、COVIDによる悪影響を軽減し、将来のパンデミックへの対応能力を高めることができます。
あなたの行動が、2021年末と2022年にどれだけの人々、特に世界の貧困層がワクチンを受けられるかを決定します。今こそ、人々とその未来を救うために、連帯した、人道的で説明責任を果たす対応が求められています。
COVID-19ワクチンのユニバーサル・アクセスを支援していただけるよう、皆様の積極的なご返事をお待ちしております。

署名（合計 100団体、51個人）
Access to Health and Drug Policy Reform Advocate Malaysia

Malaysia

Action for Economic Reforms (AER)

Philippines

Action for Health Initiatives, Inc. (ACHIEVE)

Philippines

ActionAid Arab Region

JordanActionAid Association India

India

ActionAid Cambodia

Cambodia

ActionAid International

GlobalAIDS Access Foundation

ThailandAksyon sa Kahandaan sa Kalamidad at Klima (AKKMA)

Philippines

APCASORegional

Asia Catalyst

Regional

Asia Dalit Rights Forum (ADRF)

Nepal

Asia Pacific Alliance for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (APA)

Regional

Asia Pacific Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (APN+)

Regional

Asian Peoples Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD)

Regional

Association of People Living with HIV ( APL+)LaosAWO International

Nepal

CARE Consortium Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

CBCP-NASSA/Caritas Philippines

Philippines

CBO_Bông Hồng Đen (SWS)

Vietnam

CBO_Cầu Vồng Đen (PUD)

VietnamCenter for Supporting Community Development Initiatives

VietnamCommunity Health and Inclusion Association ( CHIAS)

Laos

Dalit NGO Federation (DNF)

Nepal

Diversity and Solidarity Trust

Sri Lanka

Equal Asia Foundation (Stichting EqualA Foundation)

RegionalFight Inequality Alliance - India

India

Foundation for AIDS Rights-FAR

ThailandFTA Watch

ThailandGlobal Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) Asia

Regional

Global Fund Advocates Network Asia-PacificThailandGrowthwatch

India

Hai Phong Union of Science and Technology Associations

Vietnam

Health and Opportunity Network - HON

ThailandHighland People Health Network

ThailandIDEALS

Philippines

IDUCARE

Philippines

India Social Action Forum (INSAF)

IndiaInstitute for Social Development Studies

VietnamInstitute of HIV Research and Innovation

Thailand

Lhak-Sam, Bhutan Network of People Living with HIV and AIDS (BNP+)

BhutanLiên Minh Nhân ÁiVietnam

Mekong Development Research InstituteVietnam

National Transgender Network Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

NGO Federation of Nepal

Nepal

Oxfam Asia

Regional

Oxfam India

India

Pakistan Development Alliance

Pakistan

Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee

Pakistan

Partnership of Philippine Support Service Agencies (PHILSSA)

Philippines

Payoonsritrang group

Thailand

Persons with HIV/AIDS Rights Advocacy Association of Taiwan (PRAA)

TaiwanPositive Malaysian Treatment Access & Advocacy Group (MTAAG+)

Malaysia

PT Foundation

Malaysia

Service Workers in Group Foundation (SWING)

ThailandSocial Watch Philippines

Philippines

StreetLawPh, Inc.

Philippines

Tamtang

ThailandThai NGO Coalition on AIDS - TNCA

ThailandThailand National Community Advisory Board on HIV ResearchThailand

The HIV Foundation Asia

Thailand

Vietnam Network of People who Use Drugs

VietnamVietnam Youth and Adolescent Women Union

Vietnam

Voices for Interactive Choice and Empowerment (VOICE)

Bangladesh

Woolcock Institute of Medical ResearchVietnamYoung Out Here Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

Youth LEAD

ThailandActionAid Nepal

Nepal

Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers (APNSW)

Thailand

Focus on the Global South

GlobalCARE Nepal

Nepal

Population Foundation of India

India

South Asia Alliance for Poverty Eradication (SAAPE)

Regional

Trshuli Plus

Nepal

Women Development Innovators

Sri lanka

Jubilee Australia

Australia

Bangkok Rainbow Orgainzation

Thailand

KHANA

Cambodia
Afghanistan

Be The Change Organization (BTCO)

Afghanistan

Labour Education Foundation

PakistanFamilies of the Disappeared

Sri Lanka

NCIDIN Bangladesh

BangladeshInternational Movement Against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism-Asia

GlobalActionAid Thailand

ThailandActionAid Vietnam

Vietnam

Human Rights Alliance, Nepal

NepalASEEM (Association for Socio-Economic Empowerment of the Marginalized)

India

Sanayee Development Organization (SDO)

Afghanistan

Progressive Plantation Workers Union (PPWU)

India

Prantojon

India

BNPSIndia

Yappika-ActionAidIndonesia

Raks Thai Foundation

ThailandAustralian Fair Trade and Investment Network (AFTINET)

Australia

ActionAid Australia

Australia

Australian Council for International Development

Australia

INTERSEX ASIA

Regional

個人による賛同
Sandeep Chachra

Saroj Pokhrel

Lidy Nacpil

Rupesh Shrestha

Inhoe Ku

Nilkantha Pandey

Kanjana Thalaengkit

Shobha Raghuram

Udom Likhitwonnawut

Reshma Shakya

Prof Antonio La Viña

Netra Prasad Timsina

Antoinette Taus

Praman Adhikari

Niwat Suwanphatthana

Nalini Ratnarajah

Kanjana Thalaengkit

Martina Purwins

Maneesh Pradan

Surendra Gautam

Shobha Raghuram

Rajendra Rajbhandari

Nguyen Hong Nhung

Reshma Shrestha

Jarunee Siriphan

Sajana Amatya Shakya

Prof. Nina Sun, JD

Anuja Shrestha Kasaju

Nguyen Minh Trang

Md Mazhar Mansur

Sujeeta Mathema

Farooq Tariq

Bishal Ranamagar

Mohiba Ahmed

Narayan Sitaula

Ms. Rokeya Kabir

Shiv Narayan Chaudhary

Shahnaz Sum

Reshma Shrestha

Aminath Shazly

Nisha Lama Karki

Suman Kumar Pandit

Sarita KarkiJagat Patnaik

Sabin Shrestha

Dilip Shrestha

Kalyan Bikram Shah

Sarah Blin

Ashma Dixit

Bishal Kumar Bhandari

Tanyaporn Wansom, MD PhD

Greetings from the Peoples Vaccine Alliance (PVA) in Asia.
We are a rapidly growing and diverse alliance of advocates for an equitable and free
COVID-19 vaccines for all peoples and affordable for all nations. Our movement includes
people with lived experience of COVID, health rights and humanitarian organisations,past and present world leaders, healthcare providers, social movements, civil society
organizations, journalists, faith leaders, economists, lawyers, and others.
We are extremely concerned by the very slow progress in scaling up global COVID-19
vaccine access and inoculation. Most of the world’s population, especially in middleand lower-income countries, lacks access to the vaccine. At the speed with which it isproceeding, it will take decades to vaccinate all who need it.
The COVID-19 vaccines are owned by big pharmaceutical corporations who are refusing toshare the science and technology that could speed up mass production and distribution
for the entire planet.
A temporary waiver of World Trade Organization (WTO) intellectual property rules
during the COVID-19 pandemic, as proposed by South Africa and India and supported bymore than 100 WTO member states and numerous health experts worldwide, is a vitaland necessary step to bring an end to this pandemic.
WTO TRIPS waiver must be combined with ensuring vaccine know-how and technology
is shared openly. This can be achieved through the World Health Organization COVID-19
Technology Access Pool. These actions would expand global manufacturing capacity,
unhindered by industry monopolies that are driving the dire supply shortages blocking
vaccine access.
The full protection of intellectual property and monopolies will adversely impact efforts
to vaccinate the world, and therefore is self-defeating. Given artificial global supply
shortages, poor people do not have access to vaccine and cannot go back to work without
risking their lives, pushing into deep poverty and distress. It may erase any gains whichcountries in the south have made to reduce poverty thus far.
The Peoples Vaccine Alliance in Asia is reaching out to you, with this hope that you will
listen to the voices of citizens across Asia and the global South and decide to:Support the ‘temporary TRIPS Waiver’ proposal at the WTO during its general
council meeting scheduled on 30th April, 2021.
Lead and support moves to encourage and ensure big pharmaceutical companies
and rich country governments to voluntarily join WHO led COVID-19 Technology
Access Pool.

Countries in Asia, including China, India, Thailand, and others have demonstrated
capacity to produce vaccines. The Asia region has a world-class generic pharmaceuticalindustry with a little more shared technology and know-how, Asia-based companies
can quickly support new manufacturing capacity in other countries, thereby reducing thenegative impact of COVID and improving response capacity for future pandemics.
Your action today will determine how many people, and among them mostly the poorof the world, will be vaccinated by end of 2021 and in 2022. And this at a time when asolidaristic, humanitarian and accountable response is being called for to save people
and their futures.
We look for your positive response and thank you in advance for supporting universal
access to the COVID-19 vaccine.
Signed,Access to Health and Drug Policy Reform Advocate Malaysia

Malaysia

Action for Economic Reforms (AER)

Philippines

Action for Health Initiatives, Inc. (ACHIEVE)

Philippines

ActionAid Arab Region

JordanActionAid Association India

India

ActionAid Cambodia

Cambodia

ActionAid International

GlobalAIDS Access Foundation

ThailandAksyon sa Kahandaan sa Kalamidad at Klima (AKKMA)

Philippines

APCASORegional

Asia Catalyst

Regional

Asia Dalit Rights Forum (ADRF)

Nepal

Asia Pacific Alliance for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (APA)

Regional

Asia Pacific Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (APN+)

Regional

Asian Peoples Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD)

Regional

Association of People Living with HIV ( APL+)LaosAWO International

Nepal

CARE Consortium Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

CBCP-NASSA/Caritas Philippines

Philippines

CBO_Bông Hồng Đen (SWS)

Vietnam

CBO_Cầu Vồng Đen (PUD)

VietnamCenter for Supporting Community Development Initiatives

VietnamCommunity Health and Inclusion Association ( CHIAS)

Laos

Dalit NGO Federation (DNF)

Nepal

Diversity and Solidarity Trust

Sri Lanka

Equal Asia Foundation (Stichting EqualA Foundation)

RegionalFight Inequality Alliance - India

India

Foundation for AIDS Rights-FAR

ThailandFTA WatchThailand

Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) Asia

Regional

Global Fund Advocates Network Asia-PacificThailandGrowthwatch

India

Hai Phong Union of Science and Technology Associations

Vietnam

Health and Opportunity Network - HON

ThailandHighland People Health NetworkThailand

IDEALS

Philippines

IDUCARE

Philippines

India Social Action Forum (INSAF)

India

Institute for Social Development Studies

VietnamInstitute of HIV Research and Innovation

Thailand

Lhak-Sam, Bhutan Network of People Living with HIV and AIDS (BNP+)

BhutanLiên Minh Nhân ÁiVietnam

Mekong Development Research InstituteVietnamNational Transgender Network Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

NGO Federation of Nepal

NepalOxfam Asia

Regional

Oxfam India

India

Pakistan Development Alliance

Pakistan

Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee

Pakistan

Partnership of Philippine Support Service Agencies (PHILSSA)

Philippines

Payoonsritrang group

Thailand

Persons with HIV/AIDS Rights Advocacy Association of Taiwan (PRAA)

TaiwanPositive Malaysian Treatment Access & Advocacy Group (MTAAG+)

Malaysia

PT Foundation

Malaysia

Service Workers in Group Foundation (SWING)

ThailandSocial Watch Philippines

Philippines

StreetLawPh, Inc.

Philippines

Tamtang

ThailandThai NGO Coalition on AIDS - TNCA

ThailandThailand National Community Advisory Board on HIV ResearchThailand

The HIV Foundation Asia

Thailand

Vietnam Network of People who Use DrugsVietnam

Vietnam Youth and Adolescent Women Union

Vietnam

Voices for Interactive Choice and Empowerment (VOICE)

Bangladesh

Woolcock Institute of Medical ResearchVietnamYoung Out Here Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

Youth LEAD

ThailandActionAid Nepal

Nepal

Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers (APNSW)

Thailand

Focus on the Global South

GlobalCARE Nepal

Nepal

Population Foundation of India

India

South Asia Alliance for Poverty Eradication (SAAPE)

Regional

Trshuli Plus

Nepal

Women Development Innovators

Sri lanka

Jubilee Australia

Australia

Bangkok Rainbow Orgainzation

Thailand

KHANA

Cambodia
Afghanistan

Be The Change Organization (BTCO)

Afghanistan

Labour Education Foundation

PakistanFamilies of the Disappeared

Sri Lanka

NCIDIN Bangladesh

BangladeshInternational Movement Against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism-Asia

GlobalActionAid Thailand

ThailandActionAid Vietnam

Vietnam

Human Rights Alliance, Nepal

Nepal

ASEEM (Association for Socio-Economic Empowerment of the Marginalized)

India

Sanayee Development Organization (SDO)

Afghanistan

Progressive Plantation Workers Union (PPWU)

India

Prantojon

India

BNPS

India

Yappika-ActionAidIndonesia

Raks Thai Foundation

ThailandAustralian Fair Trade and Investment Network (AFTINET)

Australia

ActionAid Australia

AustraliaAustralian Council for International Development

Australia

INTERSEX ASIA

Regional

Individual Endorsements
Sandeep Chachra

Saroj Pokhrel

Lidy Nacpil

Rupesh Shrestha

Inhoe Ku

Nilkantha Pandey

Kanjana Thalaengkit

Shobha Raghuram

Udom Likhitwonnawut

Reshma Shakya

Prof Antonio La Viña

Netra Prasad Timsina

Antoinette Taus

Praman Adhikari

Niwat Suwanphatthana

Nalini Ratnarajah

Kanjana Thalaengkit

Martina Purwins

Maneesh Pradan

Surendra Gautam

Shobha Raghuram

Rajendra Rajbhandari

Nguyen Hong Nhung

Reshma Shrestha

Jarunee Siriphan

Sajana Amatya Shakya

Prof. Nina Sun, JDAnuja Shrestha Kasaju

Nguyen Minh Trang

Md Mazhar Mansur

Sujeeta Mathema

Farooq Tariq

Bishal Ranamagar

Mohiba Ahmed

Narayan Sitaula

Ms. Rokeya Kabir

Shiv Narayan Chaudhary

Shahnaz Sum

Reshma Shrestha

Aminath Shazly

Nisha Lama Karki

Suman Kumar Pandit

Sarita Karki

Jagat Patnaik

Sabin Shrestha

Dilip Shrestha

Kalyan Bikram Shah

Sarah Blin

Ashma Dixit

Bishal Kumar Bhandari

Tanyaporn Wansom, MD PhD