As with Ebola, it is often only when the harm is done that people working on the response realise health emergencies disproportionately harm women.
- Professor of International Politics, Queen Mary University of London
Covax was doomed to failure from the start. It is already running into three major problems.
Much remains to be resolved before the waiver is translated into increased vaccine supply.
The fight for vaccine equity needs to stop looking to multilateral institutions for permission and instead focus on the policy tools that are already available to states.
The UK is on the tipping point of a humanitarian emergency. To tackle this the government must now give more money to local authorities.
The stories of HIV positive women in Tanzania often go unheard outside the communities in which they live.
With each week that passes, the Ebola crisis in West Africa deepens. And amid the horror, the fear and a public health response described by Medicine Sans Frontières as “lethally inadequate”, public health…
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