<div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-7e823cbe-7fff-8c71-c3a7-ce2467a964f1"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Sharing </span><a href="https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/05/covid-covax-vaccine-apartheid-wto-trips-intellectual-property-ip" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">an article</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> from my colleague Aishu Balaji on vaccine apartheid—recently published in Jacobin and The Wire—coming from her work coordinating the </span><a href="http://www.gendertradecoalition.org" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Gender and Trade Coalition</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> which recently co-led a campaign to generate support for the proposed COVID-19 patent waiver at the WTO.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/05/covid-covax-vaccine-apartheid-wto-trips-intellectual-property-ip" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">COVAX Protects the Vaccine Apartheid Status Quo</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">By Aishu Balaji</span></p><br><div style="text-align:center"><a href="https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/05/covid-covax-vaccine-apartheid-wto-trips-intellectual-property-ip"><img src="cid:ii_kovor5fc0" alt="COVAX.png" width="452" height="226"></a></div><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Spearheaded by the World Bank and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, COVAX is mobilising billions from governments and the private sector (including $4 billion from the Biden administration) in the name of expanding vaccine access. But many of its architects are also protecting, expanding, and profiting from pharmaceutical patents, which are at the heart of the unfolding vaccine apartheid.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Using these conflicting interests as a starting point, the article argues that COVAX cannot meaningfully address the global vaccine apartheid, instead just serving to make pandemic profiteering more palatable. Not only is COVAX inadequate because it fails to address vaccine scarcity or pharmaceutical monopolies, it undermines more sweeping reforms like the proposed WTO TRIPS waiver. Ultimately, vaccine justice means abolishing pharmaceutical patents and fostering the domestic industries of low income countries.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/05/covid-covax-vaccine-apartheid-wto-trips-intellectual-property-ip" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Read full article here.</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p></span>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span><br><div dir="ltr" style="margin-left:0pt" align="left"><table style="b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