Originally broadcast 16/1/22

Lindsay chats to Peter Maybarduk, director of advocacy organisation Public Citizen, about the vaccine crisis facing the majority of the poorer regions of the world, where many are yet to access a first vaccine dose.

Peter unpacks how pharmaceutical companies and Western nations are using property rights to block access to vaccine information and technology, and critiques the current vaccine sharing deals that are not meeting the current need for much of the Global South.

For further reading on this topic:

• How to Make Enough Vaccine for the World in One Year

• How Oxford were going to give away their vaccine for free, before signing an exclusive deal with Astrazeneca

• Did Vaccine Apartheid Cause Omicron?

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