Health inequality is not only about who reaches a health facility. It is also about what happens once patients are inside the consultation room.
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USAID has a decades-long history of fighting smallpox, polio, malaria, tuberculosis and HIV.
The US PEPFAR initiative has brought HIV medication to millions of people globally. Behind this progress are the activists that pressured politicians and companies to put patients over patents.
Time is running out to expand an agreement to relax patent rules on COVID vaccines. Members of the World Trade Organization should broaden its scope to treatments and tests.
At the current vaccination pace it will take over a decade for South Africa to reach herd immunity, with many lives lost along the way.
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