Persons with Disabilities Denied Adequate Resources
Stagnant funding, low allocations, badly-planned policies: people who live with disability deserve better.
Cuba’s Vaccine Shield and the Five Monopolies that Structure the World
We live in a time of ‘three apartheids’ – those of food, money, and medicine, which are a result of the control that a handful of monopoly companies exercise over the global economy. Cuba’s development of five different vaccine candidates, which it plans to export to countries around the world, challenges the medicine apartheid.
The Challenge of Saying How Many Excess Deaths Could be Due to Covid-19
Five states saw over 460,000 excess deaths in the first five months of 2021, but the official Covid-19 toll in these states in this period accounts for only 6% of these excess deaths. How many of the remaining 94% are ‘missed’ Covid-19 deaths will not be easy to disentangle.
Dismantling Regulatory Mechanisms Governing Vaccines
Having blundered on the COVID-19 vaccine front, the Narendra Modi government now appears to be pandering to the demands of the vaccine multinationals. They are demanding relaxation in three aspects of the Indian regulatory regime governing vaccines.
School Dropouts in India – Two Articles
In Gujarat, only 45% boys and 29.2% girls enrolled in Class I make it to the higher secondary level; for Kerala, the corresponding percentages are 90.8% and 93.6% resp. In Maharashtra, two lakh students have dropped out of school after passing their ninth grade last year.
Comparing Response to Two Important Diseases—Tuberculosis and COVID-19
Since the beginning of the corona pandemic in early 2020, the number of COVID-19 deaths has been approximately 330 per day in India, while during the same period the number of tuberculosis deaths has been around 1,230 per day. Yet TB deaths never make the newspaper headlines.
Unearthing the Story of the Sand Burials on the Banks of the Ganga
The city where thousands come seeking moksha (salvation) has been swamped by deaths in the second surge of COVID-19. From end March to early May, Varanasi has had to accommodate more dead than the powers that be are ready to admit.
The Global COVID-19 Inequality Virus
The coronavirus pandemic has exasperated the existing inequality between the global rich and the global poor. It has done so geographically and in terms of class.
Rob Wallace on the Political Economy of Pandemics
In this interview, Wallace speaks on the origins and future of COVID-19, the case for universal vaccination, agribusiness and public health, capital circuits, the spillover of pathogens and the future of humanity.
Scientist Opens Up About His Early Email to Fauci on Virus Origins
In early 2020, Kristian Andersen wrote to Anthony Fauci about the possibility of an engineered coronavirus. His research has since dispelled those suspicions.