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We have been working behind the scenes with our allies to ensure that our campaign messages were featured on Newsnight. The coverage shows that the campaign for patent-free vaccines is breaking into mainstream media. Yesterday, over 100 leaders including former prime ministers of Britain and New Zealand, as well as the current presidents of South Africa, Senegal and Ghana, made an open call for patent-free vaccines.
The campaign is really building momentum and so we need to seize this opportunity to continue building wider grassroots support. We must build pressure on the government to attach conditions on public funding to ensure that any vaccine is patent-free.
While pharmaceutical corporations have made promises to keep vaccines ‘affordable’, we know that they have no intention of giving up patents which they will use to make eye-watering profits from these vaccines for many years to come.
Preventing big pharma patents is crucial to ensuring that Covid-19 vaccines are affordable to all countries and free to the public.
Help us ramp up the pressure by adding your name to our petition.
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