#GHWpodcast Episode 6: Trade and Health
The sixth episode of the GHW6 podcast series features Lauren Paremoer and Ronald Labonté, addressing the issue of new trade treaties and their potential threats to public health. Showing concrete … Read more
Trade & Health
People’s Health Dispatch Bulletin #14: A more caring world
The 14th issue of Peoples Health Dispatch brings news and analysis from across the planet. This issue covers protests by activists against blockade of TRIPS Waiver by rich countries, especially … Read more
Monitoring Key Health Concerns at the World Trade Organisation in November 2021: Advancing the TRIPS Waiver
The People’s Health Movement will be sending a four-person delegation to the 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12) of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) taking place in Geneva, Switzerland from 30 November … Read more
The COVAX Debacle- Designed to Fail
Unpacking the COVAX Black Box, June 2021: PHM’s Policy Brief arguing that COVAX was designed to fail because it chose the market solution rather than a global solidarity and human … Read more
Unpacking the COVAX Black Box: A PHM Policy Brief
The “COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access Facility”, abbreviated to ‘COVAX’, the vaccine pillar of Access to Covid-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-A). It was created in April 2020 as a global facility for equitable … Read more
Challenging Patent Barriers in Accessing New TB Treatments — Webinar Recording
Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the foremost causes of death and disability in developing countries. It is a curable disease, and yet it claims about 1.5 million lives each year. Developing … Read more
Infographics and Popular Campaign Material on A2M
PHM co-chairs published an open letter (10 Feb 2021) to the Gavi CSO constituency in response to the GAVI CSO Call to Action for an equitable rollout of Covid-19 vaccine, … Read more
TRIPS Waiver: Update and Analysis of Recent Developments – Webinar Recording
TRIPS Council of the World Trade Organization is discussing TRIPS Waiver. We are at a historical juncture where finally text-based negotiations are happening. PHM and Third World Network had organised … Read more
US support to TRIPS Waiver of Covid-19 vaccines is welcome, but far from sufficient
The United States government recently declared that it will support TRIPS Waiver for vaccines at the World Trade Organisation. In October 2020, India and South Africa made a proposal before … Read more
Open Letter to EU demanding Equitable Access to Covid-19 Vaccines
In run up to the World Heath Day 2021, People’s Health Movement—Europe and European Network Against Commercialisation of Health write to High Representative of European Union, European Commissioner for Trade … Read more