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HJI Founder & Director. Lawyer & Activist. Calgary Peace Prize 2022. Echoing Green 2023. Tweets Personal.
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#palestine. Sea Point. probs the most Palestinian flags I have seen in my neighbourhood in YEARS.
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Actually, *we* should be *angry* because we don't have a functioning health system- insufficient ambulances, beds, oxygen, test kits, PPE, treatment. Poor social relief, ltd IP & price controls, inadequate state capacity, minimal transparency & procurement hijacking. #Covid19SA.
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This pandemic needs a new health ministry and health system. That much is clear. Also, we need a Minister now. ⏳.
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I am so grateful & honoured. Alhamdulillah. 🖤. This belongs to the entire HJI team, and our local & global family of medicine access activists. Patients before profit, always. THANK YOU Mark; Nominators; & Calgary Peace Prize team. @HealthJusticeIn 🖤. Join us: May 12 ⏰️.
The recipient of the 2022 Calgary Peace Prize is Fatima Hassan @_HassanF whose work promotes global access to medical technologies, including the COVID-19 vaccine. May 12, 2022. Registration is free:. @MRU_Art @paimadhu @SivaThambisetty @pritikrishtel.
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Today, 17 Feb 2021, the *first health care worker* in South Africa got a Covid-19 vaccine (through a study) in Khayelitsha, a place where the first ARV study clinic was set up and a place of immense civil society and human rights activism. #Vaccines.#NoCovidMonopolies. 😪🙏🏾🖤.
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Outside @pfizer in the US. Grateful for global solidarity, shining a spotlight on vaccine apartheid. 🧪. @HealthGAP @peoplesvaccine.#PeoplesVaccine
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Surely, now that masks are compulsory in SA and a public health need, it should be compulsory for the state to make, provide, distribute them freely at and for every potential distribution point. Lives depend on it. #masks4all.
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Can the media rather also interview and question the front runner vaccine companies please, about pricing, access, advance orders and tech transfer or pooling- we dont need to really know again how the alcohol industry feels. #CompulsoryLicenses.
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📣📣📣. We warned for months:. Today, the @nytimes reveals what we all suspected-.J&J forced SA into a contract with unfettered export ability, prioritising global north;.Sent millions of doses to Europe when were were FACING & IN WAVE 3, while it drip fed us. #vaccineapartheid.
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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When the Jozi plane landed on the tarmac from SA, THE DUTCH ALREADY HAD THE VARIANT, A WEEK BEFORE, we are now told. Cannot make this up. I mean. oh my macron! . #Netherlands.#Omicron .#TravelBan.
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Glad that @Discovery_SA has just said on public radio that it will NOT contribute to vaccine apartheid, & instead partner with government to prioritise the COUNTRY'S needs. All private schemes now should do the same. Scarcity, rationing-equity. #1Country1Plan.@lesterkk @CapeTalk.
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Get drug companies around the table now. *Ask* for tech transfer, volutary licenses, fair prices for everyone to access a vaccine. If refused, we HAVE to issue compulsory licenses against drug companies. It is a pandemic, public health emergency. Our country is being devastated.
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Today our brilliant, diverse SA legal team, led by inter. law expert & guru, Prof. John Dugard, will argue at ICJ to #EndIsraelGenocide . The law, imperfect as it may be, can be a light. Hope it will help *stop* the #Genocide -so far nothing else has. Amandla!✊🏾🤲🏾. Proudly SA 🇿🇦.
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R10 million here, R20 million there. But we can't issue a meagre and miserly R350. Lockdown realities.
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19 July 2021. South Africa, Woodstock. 49. Dose 1. Pfizer. 🧪. Vaccines Work. Vaccine Justice too. Hoarding does not work, nor vaccine apartheid. We want a #peoplesvaccine for everyone, everywhere. @peoplesvaccine . Happy Eid!
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@YahooSportAu Really look forward to your piece/s on the abuse being inflicted on Caster by selective sporting rules, designed by men, and the repeat attempts to violate her bodily integrity. (P.s runner came 9th, hardly a rival, and death threats are wrong). @Sisonkemsimang @FrancoiseGirard.
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30 August 2021. South Africa, Cape Town--. Fortunate to get my second Pfizer jab. #fullyvaxxed 🧪. We fought for vaccine access-- do your part & get #vaccinated. Forward to a @peoplesvaccine.for Everyone, Everywhere 👊🏾. Thank You 🙏🏾.HCWs & volunteers & @HealthZA @WesternCapeGov
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2008. Xenophobic midnight Church raid by SA GOVT. George Bizos led us with every single free lawyer we could find, early that morning, in court, for bail or charge withdrawal. He stood up, he cried, in tears he said 'why?-I was a refugee too'. 💔👊🏾 😪. @LRC_SouthAfrica 🙏🏾.
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If @GovernmentZA can explain mask, curfew & alcohol reg.s over hours with media Q and A, IT MUST NOW PLEASE do the same with its plans for VACCINE ACCESS & EQUITABLE ALLOCATION -including its local policy approach to phrma re. patents, pricing & IP restrictions. #1Country1Plan.
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Amandla!!! . HCWs will GET VACCINES NOW, from Serum II. News just in !!!. Now maybe I will light a candle. 👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾🔊🔊🔊 . #vaccines .#nocovidmonopolies. @peoplesvaccine.
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💥💥💥🚨🚨🚨. HALTED - YES! . JUST IN: Exports from Aspen, SA OF #JANDJ Vaccines TO EUROPE HALTED. 🧪🧪🧪. ACTIVISM HELPS. @peoplesvaccine.@GlobalJusticeUK.@nytimes.@Oxfam.@HealthJusticeIn.@MSF_access.
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We getting to end Jan 2022:. No waiver of TRIPS. NO vaccine equity. No real tech sharing. No knowledge passing. No transparency. No justice.
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🚨In a blow to stellar medicine access activism work (law, science, price) @MSF bosses decide to foolishly close off MSF ACCESS CAMPAIGN @MSF_access. Bizzare own goal for Global South access work. The most dedicated, encyclopedic knowledge team I ever worked with. A privilege. 🙏🏽.
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My piece on "The Great Moderna Fib. " of this week is now available via @dailymaverick -. "The so-called 'Moderna vaccine' is a vaccine that was co-invented by the US government’s NIAID & Moderna, with more than a billion dollars of US taxpayer money. ".
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HERE we are: . '. poorer countries have asked the WHO to help them. richer nations are pushing back on provisions in international law that would enable them to achieve this. according to a leaked copy of the negotiating text of a WHO resolution. '. Via:.
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We are on our own, Africa. We really are. The rich nations that colonised us, stole from us-they just told us to wait some more, because IP is more important than saving lives, in a pandemic, because we do not matter. They vaccinate their own, but not us. We, must wait, wait.🧪.
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Racism. Vaccine Apartheid too.
UK government confirm tonight that if a person has been vaccinated in Africa, or South America, or countries including UAE, India, Turkey, Jordan, Thailand, Russia…. …you are considered “unvaccinated” and must follow “unvaccinated” rules ⛔️ = 10 day home quarantine & tests.
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An absolute pleasure to spend the afternoon w. several colleagues, discussing multiple issues with @WHO team. A true & genuine effort to listen to some of our voices, in this pandemic. A DG - @DrTedros -that actively listens & engages & respects CSOs = rare 🙏🏾👊🏾. #VaccinEquity.
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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Sat 11/11/23. Massive massive march in CAPE TOWN for a #freepalestine and for a #ceasefire . The people of Mzansi stand with the people of Occupied Palestine. ✊🏾👊🏾🍉🍉
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I have a diff. take:It is delayed because of the ridiculous & scandalous demands of MNCs, who, globally, are DEMANDING 'no fault schemes' with NDAs. Our outrage on this should be at @JNJCares *and* @pfizer -playing god, holding us & others to ransom even on price. Lift the NDAs.
Millions of Johnson & Johnson vaccine doses expected to arrive in the country from April may be delayed by weeks because of a failure by the government to timeously meet a key contract clause in its agreement with the US-based drug maker. | @CowansView .
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Same NGOs that dealt with AIDS denialism, ARVs, state capture, electoral system, media freedom, education books, corruption, land, toilets, mining clean ups, housing, arms deal, climate, nuclear, Eskom, womens autonomy, more, all progressive laws, same ones, yes! . Proudly #NGO.
Also to note - “these NGOs” supported the government in court when private sector wanted to procure vaccines for their private medical aid members ONLY, while the government, and therefore the public was going to be left behind.
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We said drug by drug, we will do this. Until we change the system. !!!. #PeopleOverProfit. TB ACTIVISM AND ACTIVISTS WIN TODAY 🙌🏾🙌🏾✊🏾✊🏾. KUDOS to TB Patients, Activists, @MSF_access @TAGTeam_Tweets @PIH especially. 🩵.
💥💥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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The 🧪 vaccine contracts for the world must be open, reviewed, set aside if need be. 📄. What was agreed, when, why?. How can the CEOs of a few companies, their lawyers, vaccine middle-men & procurers, have so much POWER IN A PANDEMIC?. 💥.
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From 0 outfits speaking about the #TRIPSwaiver / even our own @PresidencyZA not mentioning it for MONTHS / the last 24 hours has almost every single media house talking waiver proposal by SA/India. Even our Ambassador was on tv after the US said its thing!. Activism works. 🔊🖤.
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Look, no matter how much WTO & phrma + CEOs want to *spin* this, passing the TRIPS Waiver in *October 2020* would have given us a very different pandemic. Because donations & voluntary licenses are drip-drip & ALL about carving control. The WTO is clearly not pandemic fit.
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Vaccines must be a public good. So let us remember where we also need to direct our attention-the companies claiming exclusive rights to make them in a PANDEMIC, to decide the geographies for first supplies, refusing to share/trf tech. @peoplesvaccine @MSF_access @CambridgeUaem
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Sorry,but if you are a SA passport / PR holder, why must we test negative BEFORE re- entering home, with full vaccination card??. ANYONE? . @HealthZA @PresidencyZA @GovernmentZA - incur test expense in country 2, let alone logistics. ??.
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The British government should apologise to South Africa. For many things-but right now, for its racist, vaccine apartheid. *It should also explain to @WHO why it believes there is a sliding scale acceptance of the same @pfizer vaccine*. @10DowningStreet .@G7 .@ukinsouthafrica.
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May 2021 bring us a People's Vaccine. 🧨. And, global health equity. ⏳.
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May 2021. We begin 🔊. The pressure yielded some results. text based negotiations which SA+India called for, must be transparent, not deferential to unelected phrma CEOs & shareholders. Lives are literally on the line. (don't 'capacity' me!). #TRIPSWAIVERNOW.#PeoplesVaccine.
These extraordinary times and circumstances of call for extraordinary measures. The US supports the waiver of IP protections on COVID-19 vaccines to help end the pandemic and we’ll actively participate in @WTO negotiations to make that happen.
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We need a Vaccine Minister. Or Vaccine Envoy. Too little supplies, not enough time, too many system blockages. 🧪⏰.
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So none of us from 'banned countries' can travel to Geneva for #MC12 now. We said do not hold an in person meeting, pass Waiver, do not rely on benevolence, share the tech, speed up access- cos variants, timing, variants, timing, variants, timing. Own goals. #VaccineApartheid.
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Ingonyama Trust -that amazing work was done by formidable women involved in research for years at @LarcUCT & other places- esp. Aninka Claasens @nombonisogasa Nolundi Luwaya @zenandebooi -& so many others including Sithembiso: courage when no one else was supporting/watching.🙏🏾📘.
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Well, that is on its way. It is time for the vaccine contracts to be opened. All the clauses. Transparency, not secrecy.
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Shout out & thanks to Slim, Glenda, Brian & so many other public health experts ADVISING Health Minister & President. In previous era (HIV/AIDS) when these *same* experts spoke truth to power, they were not listened to, disrespected by govt. The times, they change. 🙏🏽.#Covid19SA.
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We not twisting, you said it.Try apologising unconditionally, not to 'extent we're hurt'. Let us enlighten you:Friday prayer/Jumah, prohibits work during that time. Afternoon prayers are Zuhur. Calling out black 'foreign' muslim workers in townships is shameful bigotry. @NicDawes.
In so far as some may be hurt by the tweet showing shop owners on the way to pray I wish to express regret. There was no intention or insinuation of #Xenophobia or #Islamophobia. The twisting of what I’m raising to divert attention away from a necessary debate is equally rejected.
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Dear #Macron -as you land in our country, know that we are watching. Stop blocking the #TRIPSwaiver -choose our lives over profit & #Sanofi. @EmmanuelMacron @olivierveran @S_Seydoux @SdeCourcelles @ValadouJoan @francediplo_EN @francediplo @FranceONUGeneve @Olivierray @Sante_Gouv
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💔 .Everyone warned, experts warned: no one is safe until everyone is safe. This desire to protect IP AT ALL COSTS is insane, not unsurprising, but insane.
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Listen, if you were actually dealing with real, deadly, HIV stigma at height of the AIDS crisis in SA, you would know that it is *not* comparable to asking ppl to get vaccinated. Just sit down & stop scoring cheap shots, for goodness sake. Stop minimising what PLWHA went through.
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Just remember J&J+Pfizer (SA selected) could have authorised multiple manufacturers, shared tech & licensing, not block waiver, not drip feed with donated or abt to expire stock, scale up-so that we didn't have to face wave 3 the way we did. They chose not to. #peoplesvaccine.
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05/09.I can only say THANK YOU to the entire team, movement & sector for helping us shine a light. Today is a sad day though -it shows, that countries in the South were bullied, in #onesided contracts. Pernicious Pharma & GAVI power for the world to see.
🚨🚨🚨. PROCUREMENT CONTRACTS AND ANALYSIS IS LIVE !!!. 🚨🚨🚨.
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If you are conducting a #vaccinetrial IN South Africa, using South African trial participants, SA universities, SA institutions, then we want to see the clinical trial protocol and the main access agreements, or else, we will use the law to access it. Simple. #VaccineTransparency.
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A People's Vaccine. Everyone, everywhere. @gregggonsalves & me at #CROI2021calling on science community to join global call for #VaccinEquity at the end of the Martin Delaney talk for conference opening. All progressive scientists-issue a #BLM #NoVaccineApartheid Declaration.
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People really need to focus on drug companies too, please. If concerned about hoarding, secrecy, no transparency, exclusivity in a pandemic, then brace yourself. Still await any opposition party to state that they do not support patent rights/want TRIPS WAIVED-in this pandemic.
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Wow the key blockers of the #TRIPSwaiver are in SA right now: Germany and France. We will never forget. History will remember. So some nerve, to lecture us, but block access to COVID-19 TECHNOLOGIES. TELL @EUinSA how you feel! 🔊. @EmmanuelMacron .@amerkel57 . @peoplesvaccine
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Jezebus!!! Barbed wire has arrived. Do they think we are occupied too?! . #palestine. Sea Point.
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The same big drug company enforcing its patents in a pandemic, in the world, in 2020 and 2021, not sharing vaccine know how, not committing to price transparency. Talk talk.
In a leaked phone call, a Pfizer employee reveals the company tried repeatedly to get in touch with SA health officials over a period of several months after an initial meeting in July 2020. | @CowansView .
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Super excited to be discussing Covid-19 Vaccines ++ with my favourite people & analysts & thinkers -.@sthembete & @CoruscaKhaya & @LukhonaMnguni .- on @Powerfm987 tonight at 21h00. Be sure to join in!
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'We said it. We warned. Find your voice. '. @yodifiji is on 🔥 here. 🙏🏾. #AfricaBan.#VaccineApartheid .#TRIPSWAIVER.
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Just love talking to @CoruscaKhaya on all things G7, tech hubs and vaccine apartheid. What a pleasure to be on a show where the host is soooo prepared. Could talk forever!. @Powerfm987 . ✍🏾📚🙏🏾.
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🔊.What exactly is a and b? .Who has oversight of that? . We cannot run a vaccine roll out like this, it has to be based on public health principles and equity, risk, need. These are not all special health risk groups, comorbidities are not listed here. @GCISMedia.@HealthZA
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So called politicians do not like #NGOs because we keep reminding them that there is a CONSTITUION, they must act within the law, they are paid by fiscus, they took an oath. And @SAEditorsForum -please speak to your members. They have a duty to fact check/to correct. #NGO !!.
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When @PresidencyZA speaks this eve:🔊. 1.Vaccine Lead/Envoy based in Presidency, with proper comm.s .Health Minister.3.NCCC Daily Briefings/Q&A.4.Transparency of Contracts/all Decisions/all MAC Advisories .5.Govt. action v Pharma monopolies esp. J&J-Pfizer.
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I have registered in 35-49. ✔. Our turn will come IA. 🧪. BUT, it must ALSO for everyone, everywhere- especially HCWs, the elderly, the young-ill, the undocumented. 💔. Ja Allah. 🙏🏾. #PeoplesVaccine.
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💥💥 We won!! 💥💥. Step 1 📑🕑. Presser will be out shortly. Visit our website: .www. . Thank you to our formidable legal team and @PowerLawAfrica . @HealthJusticeIn.
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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So exicted and honoured to be appointed to the Board of @Global_Witness - carrying out important cross border global human rights and corporate accountability work.
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Alert: *Legal Hotline* . If you know of anyone who needs legal help during #lockDownSouthAfrica (like shop owners getting arrested for selling food items) see hotline number below. CALL. Thanks to all the legal org.s for doing this. #Covid19inSA
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#1Country1Plan.1 week ago: ". with growing concern that medical aids & the private sector will snap up available Covid-19 vaccines for SA, the HJI is now considering legal action . (re) plans to ensure equitable access to the vaccine" @HealthJusticeIn.
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My heart is breaking for what this means, where we at, & grateful for the sacrifice of all front line workers 💔 but at least tonight the President @PresidencyZA used the phrase 'equitable access' for vaccine allocation. Now, we make it happen. #1Country1Plan #NoVaccineApartheid.
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August 2021:. They been saying the market has it all under control. enough supplies. while hoarding. making profit. billions. -so here we are, again, still-. This IS #vaccineapartheid
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This is the week of 'goodbyes'- and yes, I will be writing individually. 🖤. An absolute honour and privilege to serve the civil society sector through a Foundation that I deeply respect and admire, with a great team and board, for 6 years. The struggle continues. ✊🏾. @osfsa
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Dr. Fauci: “You can’t have people throughout the world dying because they don’t have access to a product that rich people have access to.”. Via @nytimes. Quoting also @gregggonsalves.@realtahiramin. We want a #PeoplesVaccine .
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📢. 2 key 📑 resources, if you writing about us in Africa right now:. Africa-Vaccine Data 2021:.@mediahackza. South Africa Vaccine Deliveries Quarterly, 2021:.@HealthJusticeIn. Also:.@Bhekisisa_MG.@Afri_Alliance.@PHMSA1.@MSF_access
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Long live the spirit of Ahmed Timol, long live. 💔👊🏾. Prosecute, without delay, all apartheid killers. @ahmed_timol1971
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. but, we had hours & hours briefings & Q&A on shoes, chicken, curfews, alcohol, zol. What we REALLY need is hours & hours, weekly, of all NCC Ministers, DGs, DMC, Presidency, MAC, Business, Sol. Fund, Schemes- on #Vaccine Acquisition & Roll-out. Where is @GCISMedia ?. Urgent 📢.
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Why must people who got their first shot in Khayelitsha over 60, now come for their second Pfizer shot at ICC? . Is there a free bus service? .Taxis also not running. Why is there so many changes that cost money? . @WesternCapeGov.
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A zionist is alleged to have savagely killed a muslim woman in SA, for being pro Palestine, and attacked others in her family, in her home. How many hours, days to the major news editorials, condemnations, op eds. from SA and global media here? .⏰️⏰️⏰️. Different stds.
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This opposition is insane,the last thing we want is a repeat of the AIDS denialism CRISIS, where some scientists were told what to say, when to sit & when to stand!.Key principles are no exec. inteference/transparency/no secrecy. This & the next pandemic. Everything is precedent.
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“The English county of Cornwall, where the G7 Summit takes place, has administered more vaccinations than 22 African countries combined. This unconscionable failure of global leadership must be rectified immediately”-. #G7Cornwall.#G7.@peoplesvaccine.
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Civil society is very excited that @DrTedros @WHO will be visiting the mRNA Hub in SA soon. And we hope for a session to engage - on several critical issues that affect vaccine equity on our continent. Transparency matters. @peoplesvaccine @PVA_Africa .@HealthJusticeIn.
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