The roll-out of COVID-19 vaccines gives much-needed hope. But if the drug industry keeps being devoted exclusively to profit, inequality and mistrust will cost lives in poorer countries, and eventually also in the wealthy western world.
Nick Dearden
is the director of Global Justice Now, and author of ‘Trade Secrets: The truth about the US trade deal and how we can stop it‘. For over 20 years, he has been a campaigner against corporate globalisation and for global economic justice.