📅 You're invited: Big pharma vs people

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Hi John,

It’s a great relief that priority groups in the UK have now had their first dose but while the vaccine programme gathers pace here, countries in the global south are struggling to access doses. Less than 2% of Covid-19 vaccines administered globally so far have been given in sub-Saharan Africa, leaving millions of healthcare workers risking their lives in the fight against the virus. [1]

As pharmaceutical corporations hold their AGMs in the coming weeks, we are teaming up with our friends from Just Treatment, STOPAIDS, Frontline AIDS and HealthGap to host a People's Vaccine Alliance event with healthcare workers, vaccine volunteers and patients from around the world.

Big Pharma: Your profits, our lives

When: Wednesday 21 April, 5-6pm
Where: Online (Zoom)

We have invited the CEOs of some of the major vaccine companies to attend this event to bring the demands of affected communities directly to the companies.

Through the monopolies they hold and their refusal to widely share the knowledge of how to make the vaccines, pharmaceutical companies are restricting the scale up of supply that we need to ensure that everyone, everywhere can get access.

Please come along too and show your solidarity to healthcare workers, covid survivors, vulnerable patients and trial volunteers as we demand a People’s Vaccine not a profit vaccine.

Register now for Big Pharma: Your profits, our lives on Wednesday 21 April, 5pm

Thank you for your support.
Best wishes,

Heidi Chow
Campaigner at Global Justice Now

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/13/african-health-workers-left-without-covid-jabs-as-paltry-supplies-dwindle

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