COVAX and the rise of the ‘super public private partnership’ for global health

Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi; Puyvallée, Antoine de Bengy; Stein, Felix

doi:10.1080/17441692.2021.1987502

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“…This effectively increases the importance of financial resources, and potentially produces inequalities, in accordance with the presented theories. It has been argued that the supply shortage is an inescapable consequence of COVAX' governance structure, thus undermining the initiative's equity goals (Storeng et al, 2021). Being a publicprivate partnership, COVAX includes actors with differing perspectives as well as different available resources: Donordependent lower-middle-income countries striving to cover as much of their populations as possible through limited means.…”

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“…The partnership also includes pharmaceutical companies that ultimately operate in a profit-maximizing perspective, in some cases through price differentiation. Storeng et al (2021) argue that there are unclarities in the program's structure and accountability, for instance are there not any safeguards to hinder countries from making bilateral agreements outside of the COVAX system. They further argue that these unclarities, in combination with the aforementioned inequalities between participating actors, contribute to the pharmaceutical companies' powerful position within the partnership, consequently increasing the importance of countries' financial resources.…”

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The radically unequal distribution of Covid-19 vaccinations: a predictable yet avoidable symptom of the fundamental causes of inequality

Rydland

Friedman

Stringhini

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Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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The Covid-19 pandemic-and its social and economic fallout-has thrust social and health-related inequalities into the spotlight. The pandemic, and our response to it, has induced new inequalities both within and between nations. However, now that highly efficacious vaccines are available, one might reasonably presume that we have in our hands the tools to address pandemicassociated inequalities. Nevertheless, two prominent social science theories, fundamental cause theory and diffusion of innovation theory suggest otherwise. Together, these theories predict that better resourced individuals and countries will jockey to harness the greatest vaccine benefit for themselves, leaving large populations of disadvantaged people unprotected. While many other life-saving prevention measures have been distributed unequally in ways these theories would predict, the COVID-19 vaccines represent a different kind of case. As the disease is so highly infectious and because mutations lead to new variants so rapidly, any inequality-generating process that leaves disadvantaged individuals and countries behind acts to put everyone-rich and poor-at risk. It is time that we ensure the equitable distribution of this life-saving benefit. As the fundamental cause and diffusion of innovation theories help illuminate processes that regularly produce inequities, we turn to them to reason about the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines. Specifically, employ them to suggest countermoves that may be necessary to avoid an irrational and inequitable vaccine rollout that ends up unfavorably affecting all people.

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The radically unequal distribution of Covid-19 vaccinations: a predictable yet avoidable symptom of the fundamental causes of inequality

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Friedman

Stringhini

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“…It fosters their power by bringing multilateral institutions like UNICEF and the WHO into a semiprivatised ‘super-PPP’ structure, and it provides private corporations with direct access to global health policy decision-making. 5 Donated funds are mostly funnelled to Gavi and CEPI. While South Africa (together with Norway) co-chairs ACT-A’s governing Facilitation Council, further representation from the Global South or the world’s poorest countries is limited in its governance structure.…”

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“…While South Africa (together with Norway) co-chairs ACT-A’s governing Facilitation Council, further representation from the Global South or the world’s poorest countries is limited in its governance structure. 5 The publication of a strategic review of ACT-A in October 2021 sparked outrage because only a handful of African experts were consulted, despite Africa’s reliance on COVAX for vaccine access. 14…”

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COVAX and the many meanings of sharing

2021

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“…In contrast, anti-vaxxers operate in two ways: highlighting 'dangers' posed by the vaccine (see e.g., McDonald 2021) and posting a 'tsunami of misinformation' (Mokhtari & Mirzaei 2020). Hypervisible, too, is the domination and greed of developed nations as they monopolise the production and distribution of vaccines and virus research (Moreno, Sándor & Schmidt 2021;Storeng, de Bengy Puyvallée & Stein 2021).…”

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(Re) Learning to Teach in Contexts of Crises

2021

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Alternation research groups have made decisive and far-sighted knowledge production contributions in the interdisciplinary Arts and Humanities arena for more than twenty-five years. From 2020, it adds the Alternation African Scholarship Book Series (AASBS) to its research outputs system. Via its incisive thematically-focused inter-, multi-, and transdisciplinary, as well as digitally-informed, research approaches, the AASBS not only advances the frontiers of knowledge in Africa's institutions of Higher Learning in designated focus areas, but also critically generates scholarship of, by and with the people(s) of our continent. Historically the research draws on the rich traditions of interactive African intellectualisations, from its earliest civilisations, through struggles for liberation and freedom, to independence and growth. It opens up future epistemic opportunities through intellectual initiative and resourcefulness, while critically contributing to the international advancement of knowledge on all relevant levels. Contributing to research-led constructive, transformative and substantial discourse development in our programmes and disciplines, it also aims at impacting the wellbeing of our people foundationally and all-inclusively in the present. All forms of scientific and social challenge which Africa's societies and communities face, need to be problematised and researched in the Arts and Humanities, in the interest of cooperative and conscientious responsible knowledge generation and foundational conceptual and methodological research impacts. We serve the hopes and aspirations of the people of Africa.AASBS is committed to the highest levels of inclusive, factually correct and critical, sociallyresponsive and socially-accountable evidence-based research analyses and outputs. Each chapter is reviewed by at least two independent peer reviewers. Through its editing and peerreview system, each volume also builds research leadership, research expertise, and interactive research acumen, capacity and capabilities.

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COVAX and the rise of the ‘super public private partnership’ for global health

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The radically unequal distribution of Covid-19 vaccinations: a predictable yet avoidable symptom of the fundamental causes of inequality

The radically unequal distribution of Covid-19 vaccinations: a predictable yet avoidable symptom of the fundamental causes of inequality

COVAX and the many meanings of sharing

(Re) Learning to Teach in Contexts of Crises

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