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Astra Taylor interviews Achal Prabhala on emerging global vaccine apartheid: from the neoliberal turn handing the pharmaceutical industry global patents to today’s government-funded vaccines put under private pharma control. Groups fighting global vaccine apartheid Public Citizen: citizen.org/topic/safe-affordable-drugs-devices/global-access-to-medicines MSF: msfaccess.org Prep4All: prep4all.org People’s Vaccine Alliance: peoplesvaccine.org Recent work by Prabhala: nytimes.com/2020/12/07/opinion/covid-vaccines-patents.html nytimes.com/2021/02/05/opinion/covid-vaccines-china-russia.html theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/oct/15/peoples-vaccine-coronavirus-covid-wto Support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig Join the Dig Book Club at thedigradio.com/dig-book-club

A vaccine against COVID-19 is humanity’s best shot at ending this painful pandemic. But how can we ensure that a vaccine is available to all people, all countries, free of charge? We talk about the need for a #PeoplesVaccine, what to do about the big pharma monopolies and vaccine nationalism that stand in the way and what we can learn from iconic struggles to fight for access to medicines like the victories by HIV/AIDS activists. Nabil and Max speak to two amazing activist-advocates with a fascinating and powerful track record in the fight for access to medicines, Achal Prabhala (fellow at the Shuttleworth Foundation and coordinator of the accessibsa project) and Dr Mohga Kamal-Yanni. This is the latest part of the EQUALS #InequalityVirus mini-series. Do listen, subscribe and share it with your friends and family. And follow us on @equalshope on Twitter. Hosted by Max Lawson and Nabil Ahmed. Don't just listen, join thousands of others reading our weekly digest on inequality. Sign up at https://www.equals.ink/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.