How the power of big pharmaceutical companies leads to mpox vaccine apartheid
Photo: WHO Vaccination - Wikimedia Commons As fears of an mpox outbreak mount in the Netherlands and Health Minister Fleur Agema favours keeping available vaccines within our own borders, a humanitarian disaster is playing out in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The mpox virus continues to spread there unimpeded, [...]
Where is the focus on Congo?
Recently, a viral internet trend emerged when more than 50 million Instagram users shared an image with the text 'All eyes on Rafah'. Soon other 'All eyes on ...' images also appeared, such as 'All eyes on Sudan,' but often 'All eyes on Congo.' This trend reflects a broader push that the war in [...]