How to end vaccine apartheid - Sarojini Nadimpally and Heidi Chow in conversation
Channel: New Internationalist
Date: 20/05/2021

To end the pandemic we need universal access to Covid-19 treatments and vaccines, but the twin threats of vaccine nationalism and pharmaceutical profit-making have so far stood in the way. Rich nations vaccinate a citizen every second while the majority of the poorest nations are yet to give a single dose.


How did we get here? And what can be done about vaccine apartheid? The US now says it will support a global waiver on patent protections for vaccines, and the EU – despite previous opposition, is now ‘ready to discuss it’. Is it too little too late or could we be at a turning point?


This New Internationalist discussion took place on Tuesday 18 May and heard from:
* Sarojini Nadimpally – Public health researcher and co-founder of Sama, a Delhi-based organization that bridges the public health and women’s movements and a part of People's Health Movement
* Heidi Chow – Senior campaigns and policy manager at Global Justice Now. Heidi leads GJN’s pharmaceutical campaign to fight for access to medicines across the world.

In conversation with Amy Hall and introduced by Dinyar Godrej – both New Internationalist Co-editors.

Read more about vaccine equality in the May/June edition of New Internationalist at: https://newint.org/magazines