The Canadian Progressive

COVAX is failing to halt the COVID-19 pandemic: here’s why, and how to fix it

COVAX, the WHO-led facility created "to ensure rapid and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines for all countries, regardless of income level," is failing to stop the global spread COVID-19, argues Monica de Bolle, a Johns Hopkins University professor.

Guest Blog
Jun 11, 2021

UN experts to G7: Access to COVID-19 vaccines in the Global South must outweigh profits for pandemic profiteering Big Pharma

Prioritize immediate access to life-saving COVID-19 vaccines for “billions” of people in the Global South over obscene profits for pandemic profiteering Big Pharma, UN human rights experts tell the leaders of the world’s largest economies ahead of this weekend's G7 summit in the UK.

Obert Madondo
Jun 10, 2021

A terrible social media week for Donald Trump as Facebook extends suspension to two years

First, Trump voluntarily nuked “From the Desk of Donald J. Trump,” his own blog, created only at the beginning of May. Then on Friday, Facebook announced that the former U.S. president's suspension from Facebook and Instagram, initially announced in the wake of the deadly Jan 6. U.S. Capitol insurrection, would be extended to two years.

Obert Madondo
Jun 5, 2021

International aid to Africa needs an overhaul. Tips on what needs to change

Foreign aid "has failed to deliver sustainable economic growth and poverty reduction" in Africa, numerous studies have shown. De-linking African institutions from "an aid-dependent economic model" would be "one way to reform foreign aid" and make it work, argues Tigist Mekonnen Melesse, a post-PhD Visiting Research Fellow at the Center for Effective Global Action, University of California, Berkeley.

Guest Blog
Jun 2, 2021

COVID-19 was a “preventable disaster” that became a pandemic thanks to lack “global political leadership”: WHO report

COVID-19 was a "preventable disaster" that became a pandemic due a lack "global political leadership," according to a recent report issued by a WHO-appointed high-level panel co-chaired by former Liberian President Johnson Sirleaf, a Nobel Peace Laureate and Africa’s first democratically elected female head of state, and Helen Clark, the former prime minister of New Zealand.

Obert Madondo
May 30, 2021