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December 17, 2020
By Daniela Cepeda Cuadrado, Transparency International Health Initiative So far, there are almost 40 million cases of COVID-19 globally and more than one million deaths.[i] Despite these staggering numbers, we now know the virus does not affect us all equally. Failing to address corruption risks in this environment can make that inequality so much worse....
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November 27, 2020
This article originally appeared in The Globe and Mail. By Professor Jillian Kohler, director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Governance, Transparency and Accountability in the Pharmaceutical Sector and professor at University of Toronto’s Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy and Jonathan Cushing, Head of Major Projects for Transparency International’s Health Initiative. In the wake of...
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November 16, 2020
By Jonathan Cushing, Head of Major Projects Amid the fevered speculation about which COVID-19 vaccine will be successful and when it will hit the market, there has been much less focus on a critical aspect of the equation: ensuring the right people get the right vaccine at the right time. Failure to do so will allow...
By Natalie Rhodes, Transparency International Health Initiative Policy Officer Recent reports of an experimental COVID-19 vaccine being distributed in Yiwu, China provide an insight into the lengths that people are willing to go to in order to be vaccinated against the disease. Reports of people having flown for two hours across the country to be...
Despite some positive steps there are still concerns over transparency and accountability surrounding a coronavirus vaccine. By Joseph Moore, Supporter Engagement Officer, and Natalie Rhodes, Policy Officer. As countries shift from national lockdowns, to local lockdowns, air bridges and the quarantining of individual communities, there is understandably a desire for a permanent solution to COVID-19....
By Daniela Cepeda Cuadrado In the first half of 2020, there were almost 19 million cases of COVID-19 globally and more than 700 thousand deaths.[i] Despite the staggering numbers, we now know the virus does not affect us all equally. Not addressing corruption risks in this environment can make that inequality much worse. Recent...
