Health / Covid 19

Beware the Chinese vaccine.

Fatima Hassan took on South Africa’s AIDS denialism – and won. Later, she turned her attention to ‘vaccine apartheid’ in the Covid-19 pandemic. Conrad Landin meets her in Cape Town.

When Covid-19 plunged many countries further into debt crises, the G20 came up with a plan that was supposed to help alleviate the debt burden. Four years later, not one country has reached a deal. Amy Hall explores why.

Income vs Covid-19 vaccination.

Covid vs lifespan

The pandemic years were the pivot for a rapid shift bringing a better new world into being. Andrew Simms travels through time.

Billionaires vs the pandemic.

The Covid pandemic vs wealth inequity.

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.