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📢🎊📢🎊WE ARE 4 📢🎊📢🎊
Join us on our journey to celebrate Turning 4.
We are grateful to our Board, Advisory Group & our Partner organisations who helped us build an incredible body of work over 4 years.
To support our work, please donate here:
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BREAKING NEWS:
Johnson & Johnson vaccine contract with SA Government, reviewed by
@nyt
'required SA to waive its right to impose export restrictions on vaccine doses'.
NYT found that J&J 'shipped at least 32 million doses in recent months' to EU
Via:
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BREAKING: 💥💥💥
Judgment in the case HJI brought for the disclosure of all COVID-19 vaccine procurement contracts has been handed down.
The case was ruled in HJI's favour.
The High Court has ordered disclosure within 10 days.
#TransparencyNotSecrecy
#OpenTheContracts
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💥💥BREAKING BREAKING BREAKING BREAKING💥💥
TB ACTIVISM WINS TODAY!!!
✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾
"Johnson & Johnson Confirms Intent Not to Enforce Patents for bedaquiline) for the treatment of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis in 134 Low- and Middle-Income Countries"
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1 September 2023:
🔊🔊🔊 Breaking: 🔊🔊🔊
The South African Government will *not appeal* HJI Contract Transparency Judgment, and will comply with Court Order.
PRESS STATEMENT:
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Today, civil society groups in South Africa met the
@WHO
team in Cape Town to discuss several aspects of vaccine, testing & treatment access & equity in this pandemic, and to express our support for the work of CT mRNA Hub.
With:
@DrTedros
@WHOAFRO
@doctorsoumya
@mvankerkhove
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'Covid Vaccines Produced in Africa Are Being Exported to Europe - Johnson & Johnson is sending shots from South Africa to other parts of the world. African countries are waiting for most of the doses they’ve ordered.'
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'That has not happened. SA is still waiting to receive the overwhelming majority of the 31 million vaccine doses it ordered... At the same time, J&J has been exporting millions of doses that were bottled & packaged in SA for distribution in Europe...' according to NYT.
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The HJI was launched in July 2020.
It is our 1 year birthday !!!🎉
Here is short video about the HJI and who we are and what we do. 📕
Thank YOU to all our funders, advisors, partner organisations and supporters. 🙏🏾
Health justice is social justice.🧵
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BREAKING:
Moderna patent filings could derail
@WHO
Hub plans to manufacture more COVID-19 vaccines in Africa
Read 60+ signatories open love letter to
@moderna_tx
-who made million$ & put Africa last in line
Act now in the interests of
#PeopleNotProfits
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A copy of the full Judgment is available here:
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Alert:📢📢
HJI approaches the SA courts for the disclosure of all vaccine manufacturer contracts & agreements for COVID-19.
HJI has stated in legal papers that there should be no secrecy in a pandemic– especially where public resources are used.
Link:
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MUST READ: 🔊📚🔊📚
OPINION | New WTO deal is a slap in the face for poorer countries
By
@_HassanF
@tianjohnson
and Prof. Yusuf Vawda
@peoplesvaccine
@PVA_Africa
@HealthGAP
@Afri_Alliance
@uaem
@PSIglobalunion
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“The disproportionate amount of power that Johnson & Johnson has exercised is really concerning... It is harming our efforts to get speedy supplies into the system.”
-
@_HassanF
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We, together with 30 orgs and the 'Collective Voices against Health Xenophobia' coalition, condemn the
#OperationDudula
attacks on Jeppe Clinic patients.
See our statement here:
#HealthXeno
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🚨🚨🚨
PROCUREMENT CONTRACTS AND ANALYSIS IS LIVE !!!
🚨🚨🚨
14h00 SAST Press Conference:
Speakers include Multi-Stakeholder Analysis Group who spent last 4 days analysing Docs handed to HJI:
@HealthJusticeIn
@PSAM_AFRICA
@IMAKglobal
@GlobalJusticeUK
@SchulichLaw
@HealthGAP
@oneillinstitute
@Public_Citizen
CC:
@peoplesvaccine
#onesided
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J&J 'agreed to sell enough of its inexpensive single-shot vaccine to eventually inoculate a third of the continent’s residents. And the vaccine would be produced in part by a South African manufacturer, raising hopes that those doses would quickly go to Africans.'
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Watch: 📱
'It goes against the solidarity that was promised to us in the beginning...it is bedevilled with racism...' -
@_HassanF
- on
#GPS
- hosted by
@FareedZakaria
- via
@CNN
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Just in: 📢🔊📢🔊
After investigative journalism work by NYT & pressure from civil society groups, exports from South Africa, of filled & finished Johnson & Johnson vaccines (Aspen) will be HALTED, to prioritise African countries waiting for vaccines.
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📢📢📢
Just in: EXPLAINER 📘
WTO TRIPS Covid-19 'Deal' / 17 June decision
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'Medicines...must be treated as a public good. Otherwise, solidarity will just be a word, & press statements will be worthless' -Fatima Hassan
@AnandWrites
Interviews:
@realtahiramin
@pritikrishtel
@zainrizvi
@gregggonsalves
@_HassanF
@peoplesvaccine
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MUST READ:
📲 via
@dailymaverick
📢South African Court orders SA Health Department to make Big Pharma Covid-19 vaccine contracts public📢
“It is, in my view, self-evident, that there is a public interest in the disclosure of the records” Millar J.
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🔊🔊 VIRTUAL LAUNCH 🔊🔊
*Pandemics and the Illumination of 'Hidden Things' - Lessons from South Africa*
🗓
18 September, Monday
⏰️
15H00 - 16H00 SAST
LINK: 📲
SPEAKERS:🎙
@paimadhu
@mcgillu
@CandisiweS
@MSF_access
@_HassanF
- HJI
@LLopezGonzalez
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11 March 2022.
No one is safe until everyone is safe.
FULL. TRIPS. WAIVER. NOW.
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🚨Must Read🚨
'J&J agrees not to enforce patents on a key TB drug in dozens of poor countries'
"In an unexpected turnabout, Johnson & Johnson announced it would not enforce any of its patents for a key TB medicine in 134 LMICs..."
Via
@statnews
:📲
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Via
@politico
*Court orders South Africa to publish COVID-19 vaccine contracts*
'Activists hope the ruling will have global implications for contract transparency'
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"Multi Group Analysis finds SA was bullied into one-sided, imperial & immoral Covid-19 vaccine contracts":
Via
@dailymaverick
With:
@oneillinstitute
@HealthGAP
@PSAM_AFRICA
@SchulichLaw
@Public_Citizen
@GlobalJusticeUK
CC:
@peoplesvaccine
@MSF_access
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SA paid '$10 per dose for 11 million shots, according to the contract...same price that US paid & slightly more than $8.50 that European Commission agreed to pay...SA contract prohibited govt. from banning exports...citing need for doses to “move freely across national borders.”
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Today, activists are delivering letters to certain embassies in Cape Town, SA, their countries are blocking the
#TRIPSWaiver
- in a pandemic- being discussed in Geneva today.
This is now the difference between life & death for many in the Global South.
#NoCovidMonopolies
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📢📢📢
It's almost
@GivingTuesday
This week we invite you to support our work at HJI-for health equity, for vaccine equity, for treatment equity.
Donate via:
💥This year we have a 10k$ match challenge💥
#GivingTuesday2021
#GivingTuesday
#healthjustice
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'...Big Pharma ‘bullied’ SA while securing vaccines worth $734m–NGO'
"SA put up billions of rands...but our sovereignty was taken away at the behest of very powerful pharma co.s who are unelected & hold no public office in our country"
Via
@dailymaverick
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"7%. 7% vaccinated in Africa. We should all be ashamed"
-
@_HassanF
The full
@OwenJones84
interview with
@MiriamBrett
and HJI Director Fatima Hassan, is available here:
@GlobalJusticeUK
@peoplesvaccine
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Support the *temporary* TRIPS waiver to make
#VaccineforSouthAfrica
& the Global South, including other
#COVID19
medical tools.
#NoCovidMonopolies
#TRIPSWaiver
@MSF_access
@MSF_southafrica
@PHMSA1
@TAC
@SECTION27news
@peoplesvaccine
@wto
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📢📢📢
On 24 July 2023, HJI will be in the Pretoria High Court to argue for public procurement transparency in the health sector.
Here is why: 📽️
#TransparencyNotSecrecy
#OpenTheContracts
FAQ: 📰
HJI is represented by:
@PowerLawAfrica
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'In world first, South Africa's Afrigen makes mRNA COVID vaccine using Moderna data...'
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On 2 October 2021, it will be ONE YEAR since the
#TRIPSWAIVER
was proposed by the governments of South Africa & India, since supported by 100 countries.
To find out more about the Waiver & why it must be expedited, please watch our simple explainer here:
@peoplesvaccine
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🚨South Africa TB Price Reduction🚨
"This comes via global TB patients + NGO activism, pressure for GDF price reductions + generic licenses, SA Competition Commission ongoing investigation, patent non-enforcement anouncement by J&J -but, it must drop lower!"
Fatima Hassan, HJI
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Announcement:📢
HJI is launching a special 2021 'TRIPS Webinar Series' with WITS Mandela Institute
@MandelaInstWits
The series will unpack real time policy & legal issues re.
#TRIPSWaiver
with a great line up of local & international speakers.
Webinar 1:Tue.10 August
Register.
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📣We want Vaccine Equity📣
@PresidencyZA
and
@COVID_19_ZA
must save lives- time to prioritise people living with a *comorbidity* (underlying health risk) in the SA Vaccine Programme.
Sign✍🏾 here:
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🚨🚨🚨
17 August, South Africa:
'Activists celebrate landmark win for transparency after court orders Covid vaccine contracts to be made public'
Via:
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Must Read:📰
HJI's Director
@_HassanF
writes in
@dailymaverick
on NHI & future of medicine access:
'The Bill risks entrenching the status quo even further, by enabling at least 4 unclear, differently operated & parallel systems for medicine access'
📲
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“The third wave, in terms of the amount of death we saw, was the most heartbreaking, because it was the most avoidable. You see people by the dozens dying, all of whom are eligible for a vaccine and would’ve been among the first to get it.” - Dr Jeremy Nel
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Just in: 📑
'Just 7% of people in Africa are fully vaccinated and recent data shows only 1 in 4 health workers in Africa are fully protected. This is not just morally grotesque, but also dangerous: it creates a breeding ground for new variants'
@_HassanF
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⏲Tomorrow at 14h00 SAST⏲
HJI & Others in Civil Society & Academia will release a *Multi-Stakeholder Analysis* of the Vaccine Procurement Contracts (handed to HJI on 31 Aug. 23 by the NDoH in terms of a Court Order).
Thereafter, we will place ALL the documents on our website.
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📢 Just in:
HJI EXPLAINER on 'COVID-19 Vaccine Licenses'
If you're keen to understand what the different vaccine licenses are, which company in South Africa has which, & what it means ('fill & finish', 'compulsory', 'voluntary') - Watch 📱& Read 📕our short EXPLAINER here:
🧵
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Covid Vaccine Contracts Show How Big Pharma 'Held South Africa to Ransom'
"We were bullied into unfair and undemocratic terms," said one public health campaigner.
"And we must ask: did they do it to other countries, too?"
Via:
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hji has just sent off letters to
@EUinSA
@RKionka
@CanHCZA
@ukinsouthafrica
@USEmbassySA
@AuHCSouthAfrica
@BrazilGovNews
and others asking them to stop blocking the proposed
#TRIPSwaiver
on patents for Covid-19 medical goods!
#NoCovidMonopolies
We want global equitable access!
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"South Africa ‘held to ransom’ by big pharma..."
'Frankly, in a global pandemic this is paternalistic & imperialist, harms public health programming & deliberately reduces the autonomy of African states.'
Multi Stakeholder Analysis Group
Via
@AlJazeera
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"Scarcity is not real. It is manufactured.
If the TRIPS waiver were passed at the beginning of the pandemic, manufacturing would have been scaled up dramatically and would have helped address scarcity." -
@_HassanF
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📢📢
AFRICA: WEBINAR 3 *SOLIDARITY*
Where is the solidarity in this pandemic for Africa - how do we build it?
Join us on 7 December 2021
Link to register:
Featuring:
@CKyobutungi
@Amref_Worldwide
@AfricansRising
With:
@PHMSA1
@Afri_Alliance
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“We hope that more countries will publish their contracts with Big Pharma, so that the world can see how the industry really conducts business” - HJI
VIA
@AlJazeera
#onesided
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We are proudly
#NGO
We are proudly
#SANGOs
SOLIDARITY TO:✊🏾
@SERI_RightsSA
@LHR_SA
@LRCSouthAfrica
CC:
@HelenSuzmanFdn
@OpenSecretsZA
@SECTION27news
@TAC
@PSAM_AFRICA
@RHAPnews
@ACMSWits
@CoRMSA
@PHMSA1
@SweatTweets
@RHAPnews
@CALS_ZA
@CentreEnvRights
@MVC_SA
@NdifunaUkwazi
We do what we do, because....there is always a consequence.
COVID can be a lever for openness, tech sharing, positive change - not secrecy, greed & phrma bullying.
Good on the Minister for not appealing!
Tuesday, we release Analysis, All docs. 📄📄📄📄
👇🏿
@HealthJusticeIn
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Must Read:
⚡️The radical plan for vaccine equity⚡️[SA mRNA Hub]
'Charity failed to provide adequate vaccines for global south. Now, 15 countries are seeing whether an open-science model can end a dangerous legacy of dependency'
✍
@amymaxmen
@Nature
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WHO mRNA Hub (SA):
Must read: 📄
'Like copying a Louis Vuitton handbag’: Big pharma hits out at Africa’s replica Covid vaccine
Knowledge-sharing hub in Cape Town'
📱
✍️
@sajajohnson
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Contract shields 'J&J from suits by a wider range of parties, including govt. It imposed an unusually high burden on..litigants to show that any injuries..were direct result of co.representatives engaging in deliberate misconduct or failing to follow manufacturing best practices'
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Must Read: OPINION
A New and Weak WTO Deal on TRIPS is Not Fit for Purpose |
@ThinkGlobalHlth
- by
@_HassanF
'...what countries now have on the table is the outcome of warped multilateralism—a decision not based on equal negotiating power.'
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Announcement:💥💥
HJI welcomes Prof Leslie London to its Reference Advisory Group.
Among other positions, Prof London is Chair of Public Health Medicine at School of Public Health & Family Medicine, UCT & is active in the People’s Health Movement of SA.
@PHMSA1
@UCTHealthSci
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Pay it forward: 🙏🏾
As we mark one year of HJI, our team has made a donation to pay it forward to
@GiftoftheGivers
for its work at this time in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng.
✍🏾
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📢📢📢
Join us:
💥Wednesday, 15 December
12pm EST / 7pm SA local💥
WEBINAR:
'COVID Policy Reset: Coming Together, Centering Equity'
With:
Cristina Alonso
@assoumou_MD
@asosin
@michaelmina_lab
@_HassanF
@gregggonsalves
@TheWHN
Link to register:
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12
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Read: 📜
'Collective Voices for Health Access', allies and indiv.s stand in solidarity with victims of
#80AlbertStr
, and NGOs
@SERI_RightsSA
@LHR_SA
under attack
Statement here:
@SECTION27news
@black_sash
@SOPHUWC
@ICJ_Africa
@Xenowatch1
@AmnestySAfrica
@groundWorkSA
@MVC_SA
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🔔🔔🔔The HJI is Turning 3 this week🔔🔔🔔
We are grateful to all of our funders, partner organisations and each and every individual that has supported our work since July 2021.
Thank you 🙏🏾
⭐️Health Justice is Social Justice ⭐️
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"We are in an untenable situation. If we continue along this extractionist trajectory that puts IP before health justice, then in the next pandemic, we will be beholden to even greater forms of unregulated corporate greed & hoarding, enabled by powerful nations." -
@_HassanF
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Webinar: The Future of the
#TRIPSAgreement
(Part 2)
🗓️11 October 2022 ⏰10:00 – 11:30 CET
REGISTER:
For more info:
Via
@South_Centre
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We believe in the principle of social solidarity in a pandemic. We have noted at least 2 cases that try to overturn that, and we will seek permission to intervene in these cases as amicus, should they proceed. Our formidable pro bono legal team is on stand by, so too our experts.
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Superhero health activists gathered around the mRNA Hub this week to protect them from
@moderna_tx
's corporate greed.
We will remain vigilant!
Hands off the Hub!
#OneWordForPharma
#EndCOVIDmonopolies
@PHMSA1
@peoplesvaccine
@PVA_Africa
@Yanga34563602
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@peoplesvaccine
@PHMSA1
@PVA_Africa
@HealthGAP
@IMAKglobal
@PrEP4AllNow
@MSF_access
@uaem
@GlobalJusticeUK
@frontlineaids
There should be no secrecy in a pandemic.
#PandemicTransparency
#OpenTheContracts
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"Declare that the Vaccine is a Public Good.
TRIPS Waiver + calling out the conduct of companies + global solidarity = Vaccines for All"
- Fatima Hassan
@iasociety
COVID-19 conference
@_HassanF
@MSF_access
#TRIPSwaiver
#NoCovidMonopolies
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Breaking News:
Dis-Chem has withdrawn its appeal against a guilty finding of the Competition Tribunal in a face-mask excessive pricing case.
@HealthJusticeIn
&
@OpenSecretsZA
(joint amici, admitted 14 August) welcome the news today from the
@CompComSA
that Dis-Chem has withdrawn.
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📢📢📢
Join us:
The 5% Continent: Greed, Divides and Solidarity
COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa
Webinar 1: GREED
When: 14 October, 1-3pm (GMT+2)
Featuring:
@fifarahman
@KamranAbbasi
@PeterASinger
@_HassanF
Moderator: Maaza Seyoum
Register here:
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MUST READ:📘
OP-ED: We have a right to see the country’s vaccine contracts & to know what they contain.
'There is NO place for secrecy in a pandemic. Instead, during a national disaster, there is a heightened need for transparency & accountability'
Via:
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NEW:📕
HJI's PANDEMIC LESSONS FROM SA COMPENDIUM is now available for download:
E-BOOK 📲
🔊🔊 VIRTUAL LAUNCH 🔊🔊
*Pandemics and the Illumination of 'Hidden Things' - Lessons from South Africa*
🗓
18 September, Monday
⏰️
15H00 - 16H00 SAST
LINK: 📲
SPEAKERS:🎙
@paimadhu
@mcgillu
@CandisiweS
@MSF_access
@_HassanF
- HJI
@LLopezGonzalez
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🔊🔊🔊
Must Read: 'Vaccine Apartheid is racist and wrong'
If you missed the Calgary Peace Prize 2022 award ceremony last week, the acceptance speech by
@_HassanF
is now available via
@PLOSGPH
- with thanks to
@mountroyal4u
Link: 📚
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🔔Poster Check 🔔
The Gauteng High Court ruled that *all* public health facilities must display posters making their obligations clear. Help us monitor!
Court order:
#PosterReady
#MigrantHealth
@HealthZA
@SECTION27news
@LHR_SA
@ScalabriniCT
@CoRMSA
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Update:📣📣📣
HJI
#SecretContracts
case has been argued. Judgment is now reserved.
Millar J is considering both joinder of Pharma & merits of the case.
We are grateful to
@PowerLawAfrica
& counsel team:
Isabel Goodman,
Sagwadi Mabunda,
Nicola Soekoe.
📢📢📢
25 July 2023:
TODAYHJI is in the Pretoria High Court to argue for public procurement transparency in the health sector.
Here is why: 📽️
#TransparencyNotSecrecy
#OpenTheContracts
FAQ: 📰…
HJI is represented by:
@PowerLawAfrica
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Now available:🧪📊
*South Africa: Vaccine Supplies & Deliveries*
HJI Summary Sheet 2
Follow our series Tracking Vaccine Commitments and Deliveries at
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Watch:
U.S. & Other Wealthy Nations Block Effort to Waive Vaccine Patent Rights in Blow to Global South
Via
@democracynow
via
@democracynow
#PeoplesVaccine
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19
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'Who owns the patents on these vaccines- the people, we would say...'
As
#MC12
approaches,
@wto
member states must pass the
#TRIPSWAIVER
📢 100 countries support the waiver
📢 millions are dying
@MSF_access
@peoplesvaccine
@IMAKglobal
@3rdworldnetwork
@uaem
WATCH: 📱🧪⏳
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🚨🚨🚨
TRIPS WEBINAR SERIES
26 October//
WEBINAR 3:
The Way Forward on the TRIPS WAIVER
What happens next?
Link to register:📱
SPEAKERS:
@realtahiramin
@IMAKglobal
@Correa_CEIDIE
@South_Centre
@hyoyoonkang
Sangeeta
@TWN_Health
Alex
@MandelaInstWits
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'It’s very encouraging that the WHO DG & Dr. Fauci are actually recognizing that we have a scarcity problem, & that one way of fixing the scarcity is sharing technology, scaling up manufacturing and relaxing the patent system'
@_HassanF
Via
@globeandmail
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13
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MUST READ: 🔊
'Say no to rich nations and WTO bullying in Geneva – why SA should stand up and not be silenced'
✍
@_HassanF
@tianjohnson
@Afri_Alliance
Yusuf Vawda
Via:
@dailymaverick
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💥MUST WATCH💥
We are taking this message to the streets of New York, where delegates are meeting for UNGA:
Pandemics should not be a case of survival of the richest.
Urgently call on leaders meeting at
#UNGA
#UNGA77
to
#EndPharmaMonopolies
@peoplesvaccine
@PVA_Africa
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We call for a REAL IP waiver, not a diluted compromise that leaves millions in the cold.
No crumbs, and no bad deals.
#TRIPSWAIVER
We continue to call for a REAL IP waiver which would support all countries to produce ALL the tools they need to tackle a pandemic.
#NoCovidMonopolies
#MC12
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Everyone should have access to timely and affordable lifesaving vaccines and medicines.
This is WHY procurement Transparency matters.
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Via
@globeandmail
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"COVID-19 vaccines produced in Africa by J&J were secretly exported to Europe, reports say."
'We've been put in a perilious situation' -
@_HassanF
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Read & Watch:🧪📘
Secrecy has no place in a pandemic:
-In June, HJI requested the disclosure of all contracts with vaccine manufacturers.
-Government has since told us that it 'notified the manufacturers & awaits their submissions'.
#VaccineTransparency
Here we explain more:
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We commemorate
#WorldAidsDay2021
We remember those who died needlessly from lack of timely access to treatment, we learn from the AIDS struggle, we continue the struggle for treatment & health equity,
beyond COVID.
#TreatTHEPeople
Read our Strategy:
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South Africa launches ‘unprecedented’ investigation of Johnson & Johnson over TB drug prices (+for 'evergreening')
'Competition watchdog probes claims of profiteering by US drugmaker in country where tuberculosis is biggest killer'
Via
@guardiannews
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As the G20 meeting in Rome approaches,
@pritikrishtel
of
@IMAKglobal
&
@_HassanF
of HJI all on global leaders to put people's lives above all and bring this pandemic to an end.
@ScienceMagazine
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SA VACCINE ACCESS TIMELINE: 2020-21
Just in:
More than a year since Covid-19 was declared a pandemic, our newly released Timeline includes information and key dates of international & local developments, that influence access.
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In less than a week we will be arguing a case on contract procurement transparency in South Africa:
Today, join us in calling on Pharma
@JNJNews
to Lift the Secrecy here.
A democracy needs Transparency, not Secrecy.
Stop The Secrecy.
#TransparencyNotSecrecy
#OpenTheContracts
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MUST READ:
Via
@statnews
*South Africa ordered to disclose contracts with Pfizer, J&J, and other Covid-19 vaccine suppliers*
'At issue are contracts signed by the SA government with several companies — including Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer ...'
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This month, the HJI turns 2!!
We started HJI in July 2020, in a pandemic. Now, join us as we share the highlights of our 2 year journey.
1. Our Work in Numbers
#HJIturns2
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'To avoid repeating the pitfalls of the HIV/AIDS crisis, governments & the WTO must make COVID-19 vaccination a public good by temporarily waiving intellectual property rights & compelling emergency production' -
@_HassanF
Via
@ForeignPolicy
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