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reminder of our talk. new stories human rights watch has released its 2023 report. looking at the conditions of human rights in more than a 100 countries, it says authoritarianism across the world is leading to a degradation of the human condition. phil robinson is deputy age director at human rights watch and he has more on the report. we look at what's happening in afghanistan for women and girls. we look at what's happened, obviously in ukraine with the russian invasion the situation across the world. unfortunately, it has gotten worse. but what we're also saying is, it's the responsibility of many other governments, the not the traditional governments that cared about human rights from the european union, north america. but governments from latin america, from africa for middle east, other places to also step up and do something about human rights to recognize that they have an important role in promoting human rights and protecting human rights and not leave it to others. russian forces led by mercenaries from the wagner group say that they've gain control of the eastern ukrainian town of solid. all keith
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denies the claim. fighting in the area has intensified in the past few days. as russia tries to gain ground that are valid that they know the terrorist state. and again, this to try to pretend that some part of our city of solid are almost completely destroyed by the occupiers. if some kind of rush us achievement, they will present and are already presenting this to their society in such a way as to support the mobiles ation and to give hope to dos with support aggression. but the fighting continues the don't, it's direction is holding out. and we without a break even for one day, do everything to strengthen ukrainian defense for your secretary of state antony blanket and us defense. that could be load. austin has signed new agreements with that japanese counterparts to expand military ties. they also discussed the growing threat from china's i'm visions in the region. japan strategies align closely with our own national security strategy. both of the key challenges that we identify as
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well isn't how to effectively address them. we're committed to upholding shared values of democracy in human rights, defending the international rule of law. continuing to lead the world and tackling global challenges that no one country can solve alone, like the climate crisis. deli viruses. i still has claimed responsibility for a suicide explosion that killed at least 21 people in the afghan capital. the last happened near the foreign ministry and cobble where chinese delegation was meeting with the taliban rebels and ethiopia as northern to gray region, have begun hunting in that heavy weapons to the federal army. it's part of a peace deal signed in south africa more than 2 months ago to end a 2 year conflict. malcolm life is in the canadian capital nairobi with more the peace agreement that was signed in south africa and also 2nd agreement signed here in kenya's capital nairobi, stated the weapons were handed over that the federal government forces should withdraw from the great and same time. and foreign forces should also withdrawn out
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access is still heavily restricted to great, difficult to verify the claim that humanitarian access has opened up a bit in recent weeks. and aid workers often reported that they've still seen every tray and soldiers that integrate the results from beneath the election suggest the opposition will return to parliament for the 1st time in full years. the democrats, when 28 seats out of the 109 member assembly, it was borrowed from running in the last election in 2019. but the party won a court order in november allowing its members to send in sundays pole. the egyptian pound was plunged to a new record low against the us dollar. one year ago it was worth around $15.00 to $1.00 now it's devalued to $30.00 to $1.00. this fresh volatility comes 2 months after kyra agreed to a $3000000000.00 eskew loan from the international monetary fund. at least 19
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people are being killed in stones that continue to back to the u. s. state of california. emergency workers are struggling to clean up the widespread damage. zimbabwe has banned health co workers from going on a prolong strike, doctors and nurses could face a fine of up to 6 months in prison under a new law. those were the headlines. i'll be back with more news in hoffman here on out there at next this time of pandemic to stay with us. i presently were being confronted by a new series of pathogens that are emerging out of the deep forest. primarily because planet earth is better known now as planet farm
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animals that are reservoirs for av pathogens are coming up right up against new agriculture spilling over into the livestock. and then from there, spreading out onto the global travel science is in the middle of a political battle. what direction are we going to continue to conduct our civilization? are we going to continue on this pathway? or are we going to choose a different path? in the path that the lends itself to have a better balance between our right to be here on the planet and survive. and the animals and landscape upon which we depend in order to do that.
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human societies have long faced the threat with disease. and despite so many breakthroughs in modern medicine, we find ourselves living under the shadow of pandemic that we struggle to contend. we have destroyed oh, by that, we have harmed the plan. and the plan that will have itself at our expense at the expense of these global markets. it's just an inevitable. the worry is that there's no handle this thing is going to be a force all of its own. southern
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africa, i saw recently live series, the worst impacts of the h. i. v. pandemic. millions of people have died. millions of lives have been turned upside down. and then along comes covert and we have another pandemic to tackle on top of h ave. the h i v experience taught us a lot about science, vaccines and healthy justice. but when it comes to cove dine t. did the world learn anything from us? ah, before i became a filmmaker, i worked in h. i v. prevention back then. hard lessons were learned, not just in south africa,
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but globally we learned the few people suffer and die whether strong commitment to public health and that where this the political will. everyone can have access to the medicine they need. as i said, we learned this the hard way an ugly off to a lot of unnecessary suffering. that is now a danger that has become a threat to his old. it is a deadly disease, and there is no known cure so far as being confined to small groups. but it's spreading. if you ignore aids, it could be the death of me said don't die of ignorance. many roasts were 1st introduced to h. r. v. through this kind of messaging, the implication was, if you become infected, you only have yourself to blame to the people who are most affected by
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h r. v was somehow narrowed down to the for h's. according to the u. s. center for disease control in the 1980s. these were homosexuals, patient's parent, alex, and whom affiliate or we were told, the virus originated in as the monkey, which we now know to be true. with the lack of information about how the virus jumped from one species to another, led to some pretty offensive conclusions, and stoked the blame game to the emerging health crisis. immigrant folks, the subject matter is so obscene, so remoting until we are ready to discourage and do our dear level best to
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eliminate the types of activities which have caused the spread of the aids epidemic . god only wherever gonzalez, 1978, representatives of 134 countries, 67 international organizations. and i've also asked h h s to add the aids virus to the list of contagious diseases, for which emigrants and alien seeking permanent residents in the united states can be denied entry. ah, when you say when you ask, what does h i v was aids. the question is, does a virus cause and syndrome? how does a virus cause a syndrome? it gone in the 19 ninety's and becky had argued
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against the science and was deeply skeptical of anti retroviral drugs. well enough, forgotten. his argument was a h r. v was part of a continuing conspiracy against africans. treatment of aids was declared near impossible, impractical and not cost effective. dod, i'm blue haired on deep the nihilism and blame. he was so adamant about her toxic intervals were that it almost seemed that he would do anything in his power never to allow them to be used in south africa. yet more children have been infected with h of in south africa over this today. conference then will be infected in other, the united kingdom or the us in the whole of this year. and i think that's an important and frustration was running high because richer nations had
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a access to the new drugs developed to treat h r v. but not south africa, not unless you had lots of money. that is for most of us, h r v infection was a death sentence. we had to fight medical schools really hard around the exclusions that they had about which person was considered innocent enough to access a r v. as those were regarded as nurses who had needle stick injuries, somebody who was raped could access our means, but not somebody who was gay. that somebody who had consensual sex and men became h. i v positive. those are really difficult in dock times. and i think as a young lawyer activist, it really opened my eyes. the face of us dog does doesn't lie with science. the failure of not treating
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a chevy lies and in the political will of all a government to cheat this it was a difficult time. it to powell of the people through the treatment action campaign to make a our retreat, not the reality we demanding that i know to swear to our last dominion as well as problem vicky tried to deny the existence of treatment action campaign put up the entire miserable effect of aids hike in the space. it is debra fagin, family and community are wyoming and getting the hell across
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privacy. and robin school. oh, you're good and future. in the course of a few years, the treatment action campaign i did by former president nelson mandela and sure that this is, she was firmly placed on the international agenda. as the lead is of the global health response president george bush onset by championing their charitable efforts the doctrine rural south africa describes his frustration . he says we have no medicines, many hospitals tell people you've got age. we can't help you go home and die in an age of miraculous medicines. no person should have to hear those words.
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the program spearheaded by doctor antony found she it benefited from the decision one of the major companies to drop their payton's voluntarily. this led to drugs being made available at a fraction of the price, but just for the developing world. for millions around the globe, the aid came too late. in south africa alone, we currently have 9000000 people who are h, i v positive july 20. and when will, and i look at the time in the ninety's, there are no pause. you see a peasant changing to a skeleton uses me so scary. so yeah, i h i v, i don't know when i'm a good i was it was, it was a walk me
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. ah, i hope this by having one of the largest android volatile programs in the world, we still have not been able to control a chevy transmission so just in terms of what we've done. and so i turned my attention to working in a shabby vaccine research. so that she could find effective ways to prevent transmission.
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i'm so glad that you've chosen to participate in the study. thank you for contributing to finding solutions personally for myself at home. linda or my whole family is i get a bill emotional when i'm, when i'm talking about h i v was my mother, my father, my uncle's, everyone. so we suffered a lot when i lost my parents are cause of the ha, how do you owe us health me. my husband was one. it's well, we had to go live with people. yes. good. big food from people because of h i v. i understand if my mother was still alive, my parents had to live my life and have chain. so h o v is i don't know how to explain. i'm very scared of h i v. so that's why i will, is what, when i try to something those can i help in the future for this it appears to be
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prevented. glenda gray is leading an international collaboration to find at h. i v vaccine spearheaded by the h i v vaccine trout network. larry curry hedge up this vast organization that is publicly funded through the us government. vaccines had been left to the development by pharmaceutical companies, bailey essence, with the side, what vaccines they were gonna investigate. and the reality is, is that that often is the balance between their perceived market and societal need
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in h i v, it was a huge societal the need. there was an enormous amount of infection in the under develop world and the non pharmaceutical market. well, so you saw very rapid dropout rapid dis, investment one really needed to provide the clinical infrastructure to do the clinical trial. this is the most expensive part of doing drug development. and we are going to, as a society, create an infrastructure i'm learning about the wonder of antibody mediated prevention,
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a clinical trial with the most beautiful cutting edge vaccine science. it is taken decades to develop something the targets h o. v's unique ability to evade a traditional vaccine. it feels like we're on the cusp of something really big here. the reason we call it number one of your c o, one was the 1st potent antibody that we were able to obtain from one of the volunteers turned out to be an individual who was in clinical trials volunteering at an age donated his blood and the serum had these tremendously potent antibodies against the virus, he was happy to volunteer and he knew that we isolated the satellite from the type and when that was done, several apps found and were actually able to make in the lab protein the anybody
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protein that was able to kill block each very poll. recommend using those i did in the amp study, we're not giving a vaccine, we're actually giving the antibody protein itself. if a person individual had those antibodies before they were actually exposed, it could be completely prevented from infection. so we're almost taking a step beyond the vaccine. we're skipping a step and actually giving the body the immune proteins itself. the humanist of this, that someone who has h i v infection could actually provide someone who doesn't have h, i v infection to actually prevent them from getting which idea what a wonderful story. what about what a while in their fall example of biology? the genesis of this undertaking started on
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a napkin on the 19th floor of this hotel. we sit down and sort of draw it on a napkin like, how would we test this? was end up being a pretty massive undertaking. global pandemic sneak global effort more so when you're dealing with viruses that are rapidly mutating. the reason we know what we know today's because scientists have cooperated across many countries. patropolis, we've been moving increasingly in the direction of research, becoming a private affair, determined by competition and exclusivity. the big take out from h. r. v was the only massive investment into public health. the sharing research could contain a deadly pandemic. in 2020 this put us in
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a prime position to collaborate in numerous international coverage. faxing troubles so i have been involved in a whole lot of current, texting opportunities in 10 something technically said. and we need to make sure that even though we do these trials, we have to make sure that we have access to make sure they found to be cases. melissa, say i good . then does it get better? it does make it. yeah. i. so we have to be committed to the in game. yeah. and in game is
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an affordable intervention for the poor. and it feels like a festival. when we started with h ivy, it was very difficult to isolate an antibody from person in 20192020. we can do that in a matter of weeks and we can do it 10 times a 100 times faster. and more officially we have isolated antibodies from cov, it infected people by the hundreds in a few weeks. i think of h, i v a little bit like the nasa space program. it, it brought to bear all kinds of technologies that are bearing fruit in other areas . and one of those areas is emerging viruses like kogan, the biotech firm, modernity therapeutics announced this morning that the 1st 8 participants in the 1st phase of its covey. 19 vaccine trial develops some antibodies after just one
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single dose. now that's a promising sign from the trial, done in collaboration with the national institutes of health nations, with vaccine producing capacity, pulled billions into development of cope with vaccines. in return for funding, the manufacturer of vaccines participating drug companies like madonna were given full intellectual property rights. over the finished product, godmothers have essentially stepped into the risk investment. and in an ideal world, public money should be greater public access. tens of thousands of volunteers signed up to participate in clinical trials. i to joined one of the trials in the beliefs of my country would gain access to those
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vaccines. that was successful. lou, bike, now we've got the u. s. that his or baby fort fixing in advance from 3 of the reading groups that are developing vaccines. so that means our opportunity to gain access to the sections are very limited as an individual country. this was perhaps the 1st sign that things were going astray with south africa's access to vaccines. as a middle income country and one so involved in vaccine development. there was no excuse for us not to have pre purchase supplies for our own population. still, there would always be kovacs. the kovacs pillar aims to ensure that
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every country gets fair and equitable access to eventual coven 19 vaccines. it's not about one country versus another. it's about one world. protected. sitting at the center of infectious disease control is tony found. she, for decades, he's been behind all the key interventions that have prevented outbreaks from becoming global pandemic. abolla zacko sauce, you name it, but his life's work. his passion has sent his around h. r. v inexcusable that an academic priority should ever ever come before the health of the people that you're working with. there's no question about that discarded clothes from rich nations or funneled through charities and sold to
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watch has released its 2023 report looking at the conditions of human rights in more than 100 countries. it says authoritarianism across the world as leading to a degradation of the human condition. phil robinson is deputy asia director of human rights watch and he has more in the report that we look at what's happening in afghanistan for women and girls. and we look at what's happened obviously in ukraine with the russian invasion the situation across the world. unfortunately, it has gotten worse, but we're also saying is, is the responsibility of many other governments, the not the traditional government that cared about human rights from european union north america. but governments from latin america, from africa, from middle east, other places to. busy also step up and do something about human rights to recognize that they have an important role in promoting human rights and protecting human rights and not leave it to others. russian forces led by mercenaries from the wagner group say that they've gained control of the eastern ukrainian town of solid
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r. keith denies the claim. fighting in the area has intensified in the past few days as russia tries to gain ground. flights of reviewed in the united states after a technical glitch grounded thousands of planes hours. the problem is being blamed on a computer outage at the federal aviation administration. president joe biden has ordered an investigation. us secretary of state antony blinking, and us defense secretary lloyd austin, assigned new agreements with the japanese counterparts to expand military ties. we also discussed the growing threat from china and visions in the region. mr. blinking commended japan's decision to double its defense spending. by 2027, i saw his claim responsibility for suicide. explosion that killed at least 21 people in the african capital. the blast happened near the foreign ministry in cobble or chinese delegation was meeting with the taliban. hundreds of buildings are crumbling and sinking in the indian. himalayan town of jobs fema is seen blamed
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ah ah, ah, science vaccines healthy justice? i'm trying to find out if the world learned anything from r h. i v experience in south africa. for this time of global cove at 19, she, when societies have long faced the threats of disease. and despite so many breakthroughs, emotive medicine. we find ourselves living under the shadow of pandemic that we struggle to contain. excuse that an academic priority should
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ever ever come before the health of the people that you're working with is no question about that. sitting at the center of infectious disease control is tony found she for decades, he's been behind all the key interventions that have prevented outbreaks. from becoming global pandemic, ebola zacko sauce. you name it, but his life's work. his passion has sent his around h r v. why don't you just want to do that? wanted you to that was that you have to pardon most successful vaccines or against diseases in which ultimately the immune system clears the virus . so when you do a vaccine, you designed it exactly to act like a natural infection. don't want to do that with h id because you know that natural infection does it induce
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a good immune response. so you got to do better with ha now managing sample hasn't, hasn't sommerling his or sort of madison. hi guys. flow. by monday the 2 new companies go up there. no m m i z, whom window shall pile. as on for no 72nd on moon is been land got when i was so. delorenzo, tomatoes, alphena given i know vital with some 7 is of a policy. for me i was in cali board. hey, good thing. we did an a my in the q i known as tucson with a couple we've a previously if visit i read allocating or i'd say about it had so total performance now jim,
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how much i was doing this just the st. angelo mckesson sub, what day? it was the kitchen piano. a vaccine is the agent that women need at the agency. we don't have to worry about applying a charge me because you have something in your body that protects it. as an empowerment tool. with the thought in mind that covered an h i v only 2 of the many zonati viruses that have jumped into humans. we need to know why in recent decades, this is happening with increasing occurrence.
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presently we're being confronted by a new series of pathogens that are emerging out of the deep force and spilling over into human populations. and that seems to be increasing since the start of the century. there's been some brilliant work done by scientists to illuminate the origins of h. i v. patrice han and her group in 2006, we're able to identify 2 chimp populations in southeastern cameron that were hosting simian immunodeficiency viruses, that were the closest related to h i. b, one a group of that follow 2 years layer led by michael or a b, were able to put a date on that spill over event. the event happened in 19
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o 8 gifford take 20 years on either side of bad what was going on in 19 o 8, in this particular spot in south eastern cameron. it was a period of a colonization, and you had the french and germans attempting to subjugate a local indigenous groups into a new global economy. the login of central africa is rain for us, required a large workforce to keep up with the demands for exports from the global north to feed all these workers corporations actually employed paypal mass to hunt bow push meet ah ah,
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they will probably individual jumps of virus from chimps, the humans, because they use it as bush me. a man gets infected. he's out hunting which him? he gets to his wife. she gets affected there monogamous. they both get sick. they both die. you don't notice until you perturbed civilization. it could have happened 50 years ago a 100 years ago, 200 years ago. but it happened with the right constellation of perturbing society. people start doing trucking. they stay away from home. just the normal practices of
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your society, lead to the spread of infectious disease. ah st plan torry lance can be shifted upon colbert 19. miss thorns one emerged in 2002. it came out of bats and central china. and a lot of work since been mapped out all the different types of corona viruses, cross central and southern china, increased exploitation, the landscape increased that spill over events into all sorts of other species that are suddenly finding themselves being sold at market
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ah, planted heard is better known now as planet farm there's a lot of focus on the gps coordinates, the actual spot in which the virus emerged in the focus that was serving as a means of greenwashing, the broader global radical economy. that was in fact driving the emergence of these new pathogen with we began to look at what are call circuits of capital, our capital moods on one side of the world to the other. we came to the conclusion that places like london and new york, hong kong which are the centers of capital, are the worst disease hot spots on the planet. in part because as being the source
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of the capital, driving the deforestation and development from one side of the world to the other, they were serving as the primary causes for the spill over events of pathogens, from wildlife into a lifestyle in humans with . and then one day, a virus jumps from a ben to another animal to human and then now it's not sexual practice. we're unlucky enough to have a virus that spectacularly efficient in spreading from person to person by the respiratory route. and there's not much you can do about that, but as you guys would do in an effort to locking yourselves into your house, but you can't do that forever. and that's our respiratory infection spreads. every time we have an epidemic that's just an affirmation of our seamless,
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we all have the receptor for the virus and her nose. but the fuel of the virus is density. the fuel virus is close, interpersonal contact. people who live in high density. so is disparities of brought out magnified in all populations throughout the world. you got to understand the social determinants of health. you know, in the united states with cove it, we have an extraordinary disparity. where is african americans and latinos, x and asian americans? their infection rate and death rate is enormously higher. ah. so when you broaching a disease, you need to understand that if you don't understand it,
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you're not gonna get your arms around the disease. for many ross, particularly if you're black and poor, it doesn't matter if you are in the global south or living in a wealthy nation. you're hanging on to life by a threat. then these pan tamika come along, covered i chart, v and the o it's against you to stack up. ah ah, how do we manage an epidemic when we have no support for the poor and we have no
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support for the sick. and so not only are we going to see people dying from cove at 19 in our country, we're going to see people dying from other diseases like h. harvey and t. b. new york state now has more reported corona virus cases than any country in the world. world wide, it's clear. the public healthcare systems are the last fortress against pandemic, watts at burgess. and in the united states, the pioneer privatization cove. it is showing how the ladies can modify the social right to house the u. s. was now prepared for this pandemic. it had in effect, abandoned of public health of the cove at 19 outbreak. show this in open ah clarity. when the trump administration took
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over, he ended the pandemic preparation. he divested out of public health. that's impart how we've arrived, that this apparent clash between science on the one hand in front, on the other. ah, when i catch up with toby found chin. he remains diplomatic about the deep riffs that fall between him and the then president. we were consider the best prepared country for a pin them. but as it turns out, when you get a walker, like coven 19, you never as prepared as you really want to be. so that was the tension that sort of merged into some political divisiveness in the country.
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so 28000000 americans are without insurance, even after obamacare. 24000000 americans are under insured. o swats of the country are in essence disconnected out our of our capacity to intervene in their health enough. oh, ah, i think actually h r v vaccine to get where it is. but with covering what we're looking in the end of this year. well, it's been more than a decade rad. we started at vaccine were in h, i v in 1986 to 7. the amp study. if it works, if we do get protection, will be the 1st in a multi step process of getting very good protection by passive transport in
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definitely worth the investment. particularly among women in south africa who were at such enormous risk of getting infected at around the same time as the 1st covey vaccines were gaining emergency approval. early results of the ab trial were released, providing some hope at last foot h r v vaccine. to now i'm going to show you the results carefully. okay. so this shows you that the, that they infection rate was lower e, in the, in the treatment arms in the infusion arms. it shows us that the infusion that were
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cookies surround, they would say easy, that then g, a positive, a positive result. very happy is an amazing, amazing, well, this is a legacy to your parents. okay? so by volunteering and study them with a good results coming out of the i'm trial a vaccine that prevents h r v is finally insight. but what will this really mean for the world's poor? who's a vaccine get to the people who need it? or like covered who, payton be used to limit supplies, ensuring hard profits. for
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a small group of powerful companies. there is a growing concerned as we end 2020, about why it is taking so long for the country to receive the coven 19 vaccine. the entire world has promised solidarity at the beginning of this pandemic, but at the same time, rich country is what already buying up supplies, what we call the advance market commitment, or pre dosages of something that was not checked on the market. 13 percent of the world's population who reside in rich countries had bought up more than half of the wells potential supply of vaccine. this quote, vaccine nation is a new, a new to baxley nationalism they bought for their own countries. in fact, some cases to a korean one cause even 5 times the amount that's required for the population general. do any comes to other vaccines that their phony introduced into public immunization programs against life threatening diseases thick and can to 20 years
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before those vaccines become available. in low income countries, compared to indian could you can high income countries. this is where we were with the h. i. v. pandemic. 8 years after the therapeutics were available in the west. we have not received them. and we lost 10000000 people. is the old movie again. we have no access to vaccines. and we will let down the garden pass. okay, we got to december believing that the whole world was coming together to purchase vaccines. not knowing that we'd been curled into a little corner, whilst others ran off and secured the supplies. it was deliberate.
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those with the resources pushed their way to the front of the queue and took control of their production assets. the same thing that paid out in h r 8. if you rely on charity and if you rely only on the benevolence on the pharmaceutical industry, you work secure nothing. and in hindsight, to take such a risk, to peg, a whole nation's health and welfare on charity. it seems crazy to me, especially as we know that some variance are causing worldwide concern because of their ability to dodge antibodies. surely the safe thing to do would be to flood the world with vaccines to get the virus less room to mutate. viruses do not mutate unless they are allowed to replicate and spread. if you prevent the
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virus from spreading, it will not you take and you will not get another very using the idea of this being a gigantic clinical trial. dr. glenda gray, i'm professor larry curry. organize a shipment of 500000 vaccines into south africa. that would work against the verite dominant at the time, i'm beginning to overwhelm our hospitals. long day, long, a long, long day, and long, long for a few days. the rebels like snakes, half a 1000000 husky with, is that we then get the vaccine to them that before the 3rd wave, their game to be burned. time is this going to be misery.
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we have millions of immunosuppressed people in our country and these millions of potential reservoirs for variance of concern africa becomes the cesspool of variance of concern. and we don't have vaccines. and so things at this going to get worse and worse throughout africa. we have seen that wherever h i v became endemic. so do tuberculosis. the waves of infectious diseases are influencing each other. at the same time, the higher the burden of disease, the more public health systems get on to mind. then because we can't care for our sick, we are threatened by dead li mutations that one day may not be able to respond to
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our vaccines at all. this is a vicious circle playing out in our life time with deadly consequences for the entire whoa. the patrons prevented people getting h harvey medicine. what devastating for the global south? the failure to learn this with colgate has in my view, been nothing less than a crime against humanity. it some be capitalism marching us towards a mutual destruction. surely it's time we finally break our dependency on the pharmaceutical companies. as we began to do, sir 20 years ago with h. i v. drugs to water society learnt from this time of pandemic that we have encroached upon nature
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to the extent that now it's only a matter of time before we face another threat. that seems clear enough. but what about the more difficult issue of how prepared we are for what to come cove, it has revealed that our count approach to public health is simply not working. maybe this is our last chance to go back to an older path. we want traveled. health as a basic right? not letting the market determine who gets access to innovation. not treating the global self as a charity case and turning us into a petri dish of variance. not letting the crest for profit the dust
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all further into catastrophe. is it really such a radical idea to foot people 1st? oh ah. the weather in the arabian place has been particularly wesson windy this winter so far . usually this disturbance emanates from the eastern meds rain. and this is the latest one generating rather went well if a sudden took here with snow readily on the higher ground that raise for the cross cypress towards the levant. if you stay on the same line of latitude, the next thing that stanza is the amount of coal, the sun kin to turkmenistan, giving that code leak leaking really through the valleys, into afghanistan to shambles at minus 1210 below the average the daytime high
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carbone gets down a minus 20 for friday morning. it's near reco but not quite there, but we really don't warm up very much for the following 3 days. that coldly drop down 3 ran as well. start to generate showers, i think in the year eastern or mile and helped to generate these shows throughout the empty quarter largely of saudi arabia. but it's still cloudy, coal with a couple that should be particularly in cat. doha, for example, though, around about 20 degree mock, to see the breeze die for it to feel anything like normal. this time, the tropical africa is full of rain and i'm particularly in western angola from the south of that, the problem is a fi risks. it's hot and dry western south africa. ah, we are a generation. can people very ambitious, very, very persist and i'm very good
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