Media Centre
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“It’s the global economy, stupid!” G7 Finance Ministers risk derailing world recovery if they forget developing countries
Ahead of the G7 Finance Ministers Meeting this Friday, the ONE Campaign warns that insufficient economic support to developing countries could derail a global recovery. Against the backdrop of growing economic recession, spiralling debts and a liquidity crisis that threatens to undermine many nations’ ability to respond to the pandemic, the anti-poverty organisation urges G7…
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The ONE Campaign responds to announcement on measures against South African Covid-19 strain in UK
“Letting the virus evolve and mutate rather than doing everything needed to vaccinate the whole world as soon as possible is akin to letting your worst enemy develop the Death Star before you fight back.”
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Update on vaccine access tracker shows the EU monopolising the global supply of COVID-19 vaccines
Brussels – The ONE Campaign released updated results of the Vaccine Access Test, a comprehensive assessment to date of commitments to improve global vaccine coverage. The EU has decreased its score for the first time due to the purchase of an additional 300 million doses from Pfizer-BioNTech amassing overall contracts for 2.3 billion doses of…
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ONE reacts to news of Pfizer/BioNTech EMA vaccine approval: “the EU must not hoard vaccines at expense of poor”
Brussels- The European Medicines Agency recommended a marketing authorisation for BioNTech and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. Following this decision, the European Commission will grant an authorisation to deploy the vaccine in the EU within days making the first vaccinations possible before the end of the year. ONE welcomes the progress but also cautions that to end…
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ONE welcomes calls for suspension of patents on COVID vaccines
The ONE Campaign welcomes comments from Franz-Werner Haas, CEO of German pharmaceutical company CureVac, calling for a suspension of vaccine patents and IP restrictions to help accelerate the speed the world can get access to vaccines Speaking in response to these comments, Edwin Ikhuoria, Executive Director for Africa at The ONE Campaign, said: “The fact…
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NEW POLL: “Red Wall” voters reject ‘vaccine nationalism’
New polling shows that the majority of people in Red Wall constituencies reject ‘vaccine nationalism’ and instead support fair access to vaccines and a global approach to end the COVID-19 pandemic for good.
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NEW POLL: Brits see global approach as key to ending pandemic
New Polling from the ONE Campaign shows that British public believe that an international plan to end the pandemic is key to the UK’s economic recovery, and that vaccines need to be distributed internationally in an equitable manner.
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ONE welcomes the EU’s long-term budget deal
Brussels – In reaction to the European Parliament’s consent to the EU’s next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF), Emily Wigens, EU Director at The ONE Campaign, reacted: “After more than 2 years and half of proposals and negotiations, the EU’s new long-term budget has finally been agreed. We would have liked to have seen a more…
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ONE sounds the alarm on the cost of delaying the approval of the aid budget
Brussels – Amid signals that the negotiations for the Neighbourhood, Development, and International Cooperation Instrument (NDICI) may be pushed into 2021, ONE is reminding all parties of the serious costs delays could inflict on the EU’s partners. Postponing the approval of the EU’s long term budget’s external instrument would dangerously risk the delivery of essential…
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“A TANTALISING GLIMPSE OF THE POSSIBLE” Debate on IP waiver raises prospect of accelerating the end of COVID-19 pandemic
ONE statement on debate at the World Trade Organisation about certain IP protections known as Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) could be temporarily waived in relation to COVID-19 vaccines, tests, and treatments.
