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August 7th, 2022 
Awake Goy COVID-19 cases persist all over the world, causing special concern in regions where vaccination rates are low due to inequities in access to vaccines. As the pandemic continues, analyses of the global response continue to point out the dangers of the predominant multi-stakeholder driven campaigns. One of the latest in line of such analyses is a report published by Transnational Institute and Friends of the Earth International in July. It zooms into how transnational corporations (TNCs) seized the opportunity to gain more power over international institutions and expand markets during the COVID-19 pandemic.
During the launch of the report, Lauren Paremoer from the People’s Health Movement underlined that the capture of the multilateral system by TNCs and private philanthropies was already underway before the pandemic, but the extraordinary circumstances led to an unanticipated expansion. In the report itself, Harris Gleckman, former head of the New York office of the United Nations (UN) Conference on Trade and Development, points to how a pandemic response built on multi-stakeholder initiatives such as the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-A) essentially resulted in international reaction driven by TNC interests rather than global solidarity.
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