MEDICINE
Time is up for Big Pharma’s grip on global health
wo years ago, many of us were waiting for our first Covid booster shot. We were the lucky ones. Around the world, many countries had not even been able to offer a first vaccine to their frontline health workers. We were living through an inequality in vaccine access so great that it became known as ‘vaccine apartheid’. At the heart of the problem was Big Pharma – the giant, profit-driven corporations which take ownership
