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Matahari in the news: see where our work has galvanised debate and informed essential global health initiatives
Matahari in the news: see where our work has galvanised debate and informed essential global health initiatives
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Why we must never repeat the mistakes of a ‘gender-blind’ COVID response
- Oxfam GB
- March 2024
- Pandemics are bad for women’s health – but they are also bad for their labour rights, suggests research from Matahari Global Solutions and the People’s Vaccine Alliance. Harry Bignell and Abha Jeurkar set out key gendered impacts of the pandemic – including the impact on trans and non-binary people – and call for pressure on global leaders to make sure we avoid them in future
Report challenges ‘false narrative’ of covid vaccine hesitancy in low-income countries
- Development Today
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- December 2022
- Development Today discusses findings from Matahari report that the causes of low vaccine uptake in LMICs are multifactorial, and include proximity to vaccination facilities, poor communications campaigns, poor integration of a conflict lens, and unpredictability of supply.
To learn lessons from pandemics, don’t listen to big pharma
- Stat News
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- December 2022
- UNAIDS Director-General Winnie Byanyima, in denouncing the ‘Berlin Declaration’ by the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA) refers to a quote from a Matahari report to illustrate the unpredictability of vaccine supplies and expiry dates of shipments.
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Under supply of vaccines and treatments among key drivers of low vaccination in low and middle-income countries
- The Hindu Business Line
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- August 2022
- Matahari report studying communities in 14 low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) and territories found an undersupply of COVID vaccines, treatments, and tests; with many health workers on the ground in some countries not aware that COVID treatments like Paxlovid exist.
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Countries with lower income faced ‘systemic racism’ in global Covid response
- The Economic Times
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- August 2022
- A combination of undersupply of COVID vaccines and treatments, underfunding of health systems, undervaluing of health workers, and poor adaptation to local needs were the key drivers behind low vaccination rates, and across many countries, community health workers were unpaid yet working through communities to deliver rapid tests and bring people to vaccination centres. This is a form of modern day slavery.
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- August 2022
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- July 2021