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Episode #5

South African feminist researcher and activist Marlise Richter (Health Justice Initiative) and Indian legal adviser and senior researcher K.M. Gopakumar (Third World Network) discuss how the global order alone is not able to promote equity in access to medicine due to its uneven structure. They analyze how current measures proposed by developed countries to donate Covid-19 vaccine doses or give voluntary technology licensing are stalling strategies to prevent bolder actions regarding tech transfer.

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Marlise Richter has worked as a researcher and activist in health and human rights focused organizations for many years and in a number of different South African NGOs, such as Project Literacy, the AIDS Law Project, the Treatment Action Campaign and the Reproductive Health and HIV Research Unit and more recently served as the Head of Policy Development & Advocacy at Sonke Gender Justice. She currently serves as Senior Researcher at the Health Justice Initiative working on issues of health equity.

K. M. Gopakumar is a Senior Researcher and Legal Advisor at Third World Network (TWN) and based in New Delhi, India. TWN is an independent, not-for-profit organization that carries out policy research and advocacy on issues around trade and development, with a focus on third world countries. His work in TWN focuses on the global IP regime and its implication son on development.



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