The cancer drug was meant to save children’s lives. Instead, they’re dying
Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia is the most common kind of childhood cancer but the drugs containing asparaginase are of poor quality, leaving 70 000 children at risk
After India: The countries on the brink of another Covid oxygen crisis
The need for medical oxygen to treat Covid-19 patients in low- and middle-income countries has more than doubled in the past two months, and many of these countries faced oxygen shortages before the pandemic
Pfizer backs down over ‘unreasonable’ terms in South Africa vaccine deal
Government, according to Mkhize, is “relieved” as Pfizer eventually conceded and removed the “problematic term”
‘Held to ransom’: Pfizer demands governments gamble with state assets to secure vaccine deal
Pfizer is accused of bullying Latin American governments by demanding they grant indemnity against potential civil claims relating to the vaccine
Another Covid crisis: A vaccine apartheid endangering us all
The West bought billions of vaccines fast and cheap, leaving poorer nations paying through the nose for years to come