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Op-Ed
June 11, 2021
Despite this importance and their proximity to “affected people” – to whom the whole humanitarian system aims to be accountable – the knowledge and expertise of local and national actors do not carry much weight in internationally-led humanitarian action. This dynamic has bled into international pol...
Op-Ed
May 10, 2021
On May 5, President Joe Biden announced that the United States would support an international bid to waive intellectual property rights to vaccines for the duration of the coronavirus pandemic, thereby ostensibly allowing other countries to ramp up production even of the sophisticated technology beh...
Op-Ed
May 06, 2021
Big Pharma offers an easy punching bag. To some extent, the hostility is understandable. Pharmaceutical companies make their money by selling lifesaving innovations that they alone control. When prices are too high, people are forced into poverty to pay for medicine, or they get sick and die for lac...
Op-Ed
May 02, 2021
Only a handful of places — including Taiwan, Vietnam and New Zealand — acted in time to contain the coronavirus last year, causing the world to spend trillions of dollars fighting an infection that has led to the deaths of more than 3 million people so far. The World Health Organization shoulders so...