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Far too few Africans have had their first shot: vaccination in Dakar in the summer of 2021.

Covid-19

EU should support IP waiver for Covid-19 vaccines

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by Mirza Alas

Tea estates

Fighting for workers’ rights

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by Raphael Mweninguwe
Workers at the recycling facility.

Plastic

Balancing profits and staff welfare in Ivory Coast

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by Genesis Ehimegbe
by Ronald Ssegujja Ssekandi
Ronald Ssegujja Ssekandi
: Children in poor countries have a much lower chance of surviving cancer than children in rich countries: Young cancer patients in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Cancer

Unaffordable treatment

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by Max Klein
by Jörg Schaaber
Delivery of Covid-19 vaccine to South Sudan in March 2021 under the COVAX initiative – but experts say COVAX is delivering far too little vaccines worldwide.

Patents

Intellectual property versus health care

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by Max Klein
by Jörg Schaaber
Illegal and counterfeit medicines seized by German customs officers.

Crime

Counterfeit medicines are very profitable for criminals

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by Linda Engel

Price negotiations

Paying over the odds

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by Aviva Freudmann
Precious asset: technicians in Nairobi with a carton of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine manufactured by the Serum Institute of India.

Intellectual property

INGO opposes vaccine patents

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by Marion Lieser

Zambia

Think local, buy local

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by Derrick Silimina
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