“The Covid-19 pandemic is a pandemic of inequality”. Leslie London, South Africa
Channel: medico international
Date: 2021-03-08

Interview with Leslie London, Professor for Public Health at the University of Cape Town and activist in the Peoples Health Movement (PHM) South Africa, on lessons from the HIV/AIDS pandemic and global inequality as a cause for the Covid-19 pandemic.

On Wednesday, March 10, the 162 members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) will meet to discuss once again in the so-called TRIPS Council the request of more than 100 countries of the Global South to suspend Covid19 patents and other intellectual property rights. But Germany, Europe and almost all industrialized nations are blocking the TRIPS waiver to suspend intellectual property rights during the pandemic. 

We interviewed medico partners, doctors and health activists from the Global South about the pandemic in their countries and why the governments of the rich countries have to give up their blockade of patent protection.  

Protests are stirring around the world. Numerous movements from all over the world are demanding a suspension of the Corona patents. That is why we too, along with many others, are protesting in solidarity with the people of the Global South in front of the German Ministry of Economics on March 10, 2021. 

Patents Kill. Vaccines belong to everyone. Everywhere.

www.patents-kill.org