Health / Covid 19

Ethical and political dilemmas abound these days. Seems like we’re all in need of a New Internationalist perspective. Enter stage: Agony Uncle.

Vaccine equality by Kate Evans.

Iris Gonzales delves into some of the reasons why the vaccine rollout in her country is encountering drag.

Nilanjana Bhowmick on oxygen inequity and the price paid by her country’s citizens.

Will Miguel Díaz-Canel, the Castros’ hand-picked successor, wield a new broom of change? Wayne Ellwood weighs up the island’s options.

Vaccine profits vs wealth inequality.

Nilanjana Bhowmick on the colossal failure of governance that has led to needless deaths on a massive scale.

Fresh hell by Kate Evans.

From private vaccination schemes to public office misuse of power.

Italy is under pressure to stop using offshore quarantine ferries, reports Karlos Zurutuza.

Despite the challenges of ensuring equal access, health expert Christopher Morgan is hopeful that the Covid-19 vaccine push is helping to shape a better future for global immunology. He speaks to Amy Hall.

It is thanks to scientists collaborating across borders that vaccines against Covid-19 have been developed so fast, argues Rajni George.

Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates has a key role in shaping the global response to the pandemic. And it’s not good news for health equality. Nick Dowson investigates why.

Swagata Yadavar traces the ups and downs in the history of vaccination.

Richard Swift warns against vaccine fantasy and kneejerk technophilia.

Covid-19 vaccines explained by Thomas Abraham.

Who gets it? What's needed? What's on order? Who profits? Who lives?

Husna Ara probes co-editor Amy Hall on why now, and what next…

Access to life-saving Covid-19 vaccines should not be reserved for the rich. But that is what’s happening on a global scale today. Heidi Chow calls for technology to be shared and patents to be suspended in order to unlock vaccine production for all.

Fresh hell by Kate Evans.