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Vaccine Apartheid Endures w/ Achal Prabhala

The Dig

Daniel Denvir

News, Politics

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2022

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

Astra interviews Achal Prabhala on the lethal persistence of global vaccine apartheid. Moderna is selfishly refusing to share or even sell (license) its mRNA technology, leaving much of the world unprotected from the pandemic and incubating new variants.

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Thank you. Meisner. Out now from Haymarket Books. Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine.

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My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

1:29.0

One year into the pandemic, guest host Astra Taylor interviewed Achal Prabala,

1:35.3

coordinator of Access IBSA, which campaigns for access to medicines in India, Brazil, and South

1:41.8

Africa.

1:42.8

At that point, there were already multiple highly effective

1:46.3

vaccines and a growing movement fighting for free, universal access. As Prabola warned in that

1:54.0

episode, the fact that the coronavirus rapidly mutates made it imperative that the vaccine

2:00.6

be released worldwide on the basis of need,

2:04.2

not ability to pay. Now, one year since our last interview, Astra reconnected with Prabhala.

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