The pandemic has a trans woman’s face

11 Mar 2022

On the two-year mark of the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, the #Fem4PeoplesVaccine campaign brings forth the voice of the groups most marginalized and most affected by Covid-19 and highlights the gendered impacts of this health crisis.

Global South feminists demand that the #TRIPSwaiver be adopted immediately. This measure would allow the world to produce #Covid19 vaccines at full capacity, as well as therapeutics & diagnostics. We can’t fool ourselves, the pandemic is not ending, not for rich countries and much less for low-income countries. We can’t defeat the virus with vaccines alone, we need treatments, testing, and health strategies integrated into health systems. We need a comprehensive and global response. Coordinated access to all these elements will only materialize if we suspend intellectual property privileges.

In Gita Sen’s words at the UN Human Rights Council, “we must recognize that we will sink or swim together.”

#Fem4PeoplesVaccine #informalworkers #IWD #8M #VaccinEquity #SexWorkers #EndCOVIDMonopolies #gender #feminism #woke #trans