When: Tuesday 29th March at 7pm
Where: George Davies Centre, Lecture Theatre 1, University Rd, Leicester, LE1 7RH (see on Google maps)
Speakers:
Maurine Murenga, director of Lean on Me Foundation, Kenya
Dr Zainabab Mai-Bornu, politics lecturer, University of Leicester
Simon Brasch, patient leader, Just Treatment
More about the tour
The global response to Covid-19 has been so unequal that some global south activists have called it ‘vaccine apartheid’. While those of us in the UK have been offered third and even fourth doses of the vaccine, across the whole of Africa only 11% are double jabbed. This injustice is rooted in a colonial history that has devalued the lives of people in the global south over centuries. And it is reinforced by global economic rules designed to concentrate wealth and power in the hands of multinational corporations in the global north.
For the pharmaceutical industry, making massive amounts of money for their wealthy shareholders has long been more important than the lives of people in the global south. Twenty years ago, Big Pharma even sued Nelson Mandela’s government when it tried to import cheaper medicines, because South Africa was unable to afford the astronomically-priced HIV drugs it needed during the Aids crisis.
Come along to hear our speakers discuss an alternative, and join our campaign to fight for a decolonised pharmaceutical system.
