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EMERGENCY’S CHILDREN’S SURGICAL HOSPITAL, SET TO BECOME A REFERRAL POINT FOR THE AFRICAN CONTINENT, OPENS IN UGANDA
Thursday, April 22, 2021
RAMADHAN, TOPISTA, JUSTINE, KATONGOLE, MATOVU AND JORDAN ARE THE FIRST PATIENTS IN ENTEBBE DESIGNED BY RENZO PIANO BUILDING WORKSHOP AND STUDIO TAMASSOCIATI, THE CENTRE COMBINES MEDICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL EXCELLENCE ON THE BANKS OF LAKE VICTORIA EMERGENCY’s Children’s Surgical Hospital in Uganda has begun clinical activities. The first patients, Ramadhan, Topista, Justine, Katongole, Matovu and Jordan, […]
FORMER HEADS OF STATE AND NOBEL LAUREATES CALL ON PRESIDENT BIDEN TO WAIVE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RULES FOR COVID VACCINES
Thursday, April 15, 2021
More than 150 former heads of state and government and Nobel laureates, including former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Gordon Brown, former President of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos, former President of Liberia Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, former President of France François Hollande and Nobel Laureates Professor Joseph Stiglitz and Professor Francoise Barre-Sinoussi, today called on […]
President of Afghanistan declares ‘unwavering support’ for a People’s Vaccine for COVID-19
Thursday, April 1, 2021
1 April 2021— The President of Afghanistan, Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has joined world leaders and experts in an appeal for equitable and fair distribution of COVID-19 vaccines. In a letter to the People’s Vaccine Alliance, President Ghani outlined that despite the numerous challenges Afghanistan continues to face as a country caught in conflict, Afghanistan has witnessed fewer human losses caused by the COVID-19 pandemic compared to other countries. However, the President underscored that this did not […]
Two-thirds of epidemiologists warn mutations could render current COVID vaccines ineffective in a year or less
Tuesday, March 30, 2021
New survey from People’s Vaccine Alliance shows urgency of vaccinating all countries Epidemiologists, from some of the world’s leading academic institutions, delivered a stark warning today of the risk the world is taking by failing to ensure all countries have sufficient vaccines to protect people from COVID-19. In a survey of 77 epidemiologists from 28 […]
OPEN ARMS – EMERGENCY: 219 Survivors On Board The Open Arms Vessel.
Monday, March 29, 2021
219 SURVIVOR ON BOARD THE OPEN ARMS VESSEL After conducting a rescue mission on Saturday and spending Sunday assessing the area, the Open Arms vessel, with EMERGENCY personnel on board, has just completed another rescue operation of two other boats in distress in the Maltese SAR zone. There are now 219 people on board, 56 of them minors, with 17 of them […]
Rich Nations Vaccinating One Person Every Second While Majority of the Poorest Nations Are Yet to Give a Single Dose
Wednesday, March 10, 2021
US, UK and EU blocking proposals at WTO to help poorer countries get vaccines more quickly One year on from the declaration of the COVID-19 pandemic, the People’s Vaccine Alliance is warning that developing countries are facing critical shortages of oxygen and medical supplies to cope with COVID-19 cases yet the majority have been unable […]
OPEN ARMS AND EMERGENCY HAVE JUST LANDED 146 PEOPLE AT PORTO EMPEDOCLE, AFTER SAVING THEM AT SEA IN TWO OPERATIONS UNDER DIFFICULT CONDITIONS AND PRESSURE FROM LIBYA’S SO-CALLED COAST GUARD
Tuesday, February 16, 2021
Last night the ship Open Arms, with EMERGENCY workers on board, reached Porto Empedocle, the designated harbour for the 146 people it has rescued in the last few days. The Italian Red Cross gave them swabs for Covid-19 this morning, before they were put onto the ship Allegra for quarantine, or in shelters on land […]
EMERGENCY WINS EESC CIVIL SOLIDARITY PRIZE FOR ITS CROSS-BORDER BATTLE WITH THE PANDEMIC
Monday, February 15, 2021
The international NGO EMERGENCY is among 23 projects from the EU and the UK that have received the award for their outstanding contribution to fighting COVID-19 and its disastrous consequences. The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) has awarded the Civil Solidarity Prize to the humanitarian NGO EMERGENCY for its invaluable role on the front […]
Monopolies causing “artificial rationing” in COVID-19 crisis as 3 biggest global vaccine giants sit on sidelines
Friday, February 5, 2021
The supply of safe and effective vaccines for all is being artificially rationed because of the protection of exclusive rights and monopolies of pharmaceutical corporations, the People’s Vaccine Alliance said today. The alliance warned that the three biggest vaccine companies in the world are largely sitting on the sidelines – they currently plan to produce […]
THE ITALY–LIBYA AGREEMENT: FOUR YEARS OF FAILURE, VIOLENCE AND TORTURE SHOW POLITICAL CYNICISM
Tuesday, February 2, 2021
Rome, 2 February 2021 – Four years to the day Libya and Italy signed their agreement to stem the flow of migrants from one to the other, the record is more saddening than ever, pointing to a failure of Italian and EU politics. Public funds are still going only on stopping people arriving in our […]