Imagine a realm besieged by enemy troops. Covid-19 exploding in Sindh is posing such an existential threat. Now imagine the mindset of those opposing protective measures against the looming peril. Intoxicated with fury, the federal government opposed the lockdown, as the Covid delta variant spreads like wildfire. The PM and federal ministers dubbed these preventive […]
South Asia Peace Action Network (SAPAN) held a webinar “Neighbours in Peace and Health” on June 27, 2021. Third in the SAPAN series – Imagine! Neighbours in Peace – the webinar concluded that COVID-19 needs a regional response, and according to physicians and activists at the online meeting, an empathetic and cooperative approach is needed […]
“If you said to an ordinary person, ‘We’re in a pandemic. Let’s figure out everyone who can make vaccines and give them everything they need to get online as fast as possible,’ it would be a no-brainer”. — James Love, Director of Knowledge Ecology International. Public health experts and advocates of ‘open science’ assembled under […]