Uploaded February 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
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How can drug companies make huge profits from vaccines while people in the global south die from lack of access to medical care? How does the global regime of intellectual property rights enable this inequality? And what is the role of Bill Gates in defending this system?
In this interview, Dr. Mohga Kamal-Yanni argues that vaccine inequality is not a market but a policy failure. From the HIV crisis in the early 2000s to the recent pandemic, the public has repeatedly shouldered the risk for the development of life-saving medicines while private corporations have reaped obscene profits. How can we break Big Pharma’s power and develop an alternative health system?
Dr. Mohga Kamal-Yanni is the co-leader of the policy group of the People’s Vaccine Alliance. She is a senior health advisor with 40 years of experience in health policy and programming with international and national health and development agencies including multilateral agencies, NGOs and governments. Arun Kundnani is a TNI associate and author of The Muslims are Coming! Islamophobia, extremism, and the domestic War on Terror.
Editor: Josh Akinwumi
#Vaccine #wto #trips #publichealth #trade #iprights #intellectualpropertylaw
0:00:00 Introduction
00:01:13 The People’s Vaccine Alliance
00:03:17 Vaccine distribution across the world
00:11:41 Vaccine production in India and the global South
00:19:41 The history of Intellectual Property Rights & Bill Gates
00:38:37 How many lives could we have saved with a different system?
00:40:24 An alternative intellectual property system
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This video is part of a monthly series. Watch all videos here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6JRfkdlcGYWFO9hdjtk9ISAMbrHCHfqY
How can drug companies make huge profits from vaccines while people in the global south die from lack of access to medical care? How does the global regime of intellectual property rights enable this inequality? And what is the role of Bill Gates in defending this system?
In this interview, Dr. Mohga Kamal-Yanni argues that vaccine inequality is not a market but a policy failure. From the HIV crisis in the early 2000s to the recent pandemic, the public has repeatedly shouldered the risk for the development of life-saving medicines while private corporations have reaped obscene profits. How can we break Big Pharma’s power and develop an alternative health system?
Dr. Mohga Kamal-Yanni is the co-leader of the policy group of the People’s Vaccine Alliance. She is a senior health advisor with 40 years of experience in health policy and programming with international and national health and development agencies including multilateral agencies, NGOs and governments. Arun Kundnani is a TNI associate and author of The Muslims are Coming! Islamophobia, extremism, and the domestic War on Terror.
Editor: Josh Akinwumi
#Vaccine #wto #trips #publichealth #trade #iprights #intellectualpropertylaw
0:00:00 Introduction
00:01:13 The People’s Vaccine Alliance
00:03:17 Vaccine distribution across the world
00:11:41 Vaccine production in India and the global South
00:19:41 The history of Intellectual Property Rights & Bill Gates
00:38:37 How many lives could we have saved with a different system?
00:40:24 An alternative intellectual property system
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Support our work: tni.org/en/support-tni
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![Short documentary: Barcelonas residents fight for public water management [es & eng]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/W5-JfwqUnsQ/mqdefault.jpg "Short documentary: Barcelonas residents fight for public water management [es & eng]
Presented at the Future is Public conference 2019: https://futureispublic.org/
We are living in a crucial moment. Cities are on the front lines of today’s most urgent challenges, including fighting climate change and rising inequality, as well as the need to support refugees and provide universal access to public services that are human rights including housing, drinking water and sanitation services, energy, health care and education. These global problems call for public solutions.
A growing network of progressive, green municipalities is developing strategies to tackle these and many other critical issues. Cities are well positioned to explore direct democracy, and advance innovative economic models that build community wealth and create decent jobs. At the same time, we need a national level of coordination and ambition to reverse market fundamentalism, which is the root cause of our collective economic and social crises. Profit-driven, market-based policies led to the privatisation of our public services and to the denigration of solidarity and public service.
This video gives an insight into Barcelonas residents struggle for the remunicipalization of the citys water. Find out more: https://futureispublic.org/")
