People's Health Movement – North America
PHM Canada has signed on to a joint statement regarding the TRIPS Waiver that calls on WTO member states to rapidly come to agreement on extending the waiver decision, as agreed in Geneva, by the end of this year. The letter was sent to the Canadian Ministers of Trade and…
PHM Canada has signed on to a joint statement produced by the Ontario Health Coalition on the upcoming Ontario provincial election that pertains to key health care issues. To view the letter and to sign on, please click here. The crisis that COVID-19 has presented, cast an unflinching light…
PHM Canada has signed on to a global solidarity letter to oppose a WTO plan that would undermine a true TRIPS waiver for COVID vaccines and tests. To view the letter and to sign on, please click here. Dear President Ramaphosa and Prime Minister Modi, We are civil society organisations,…
PHM Canada has signed onto a letter/statement spearheaded by OXFAM and CCPA and sent to Ministers Ng and Champagne, addressing the compromised TRIPS waiver. Dear Ministers Ng and Champagne, Since October 2020, our organizations — together with the 80+ members of the Peoples Vaccine Alliance — have supported the proposal…
PHM Canada has signed onto an open letter to the WTO Director General asking for them to deliver a credible response to the Covid-19 pandemic in the form of a TRIPS waiver proposal that addresses concerns about the impact of intellectual property on timely and affordable access to medical…
For the 2022 Prince Mahidol Awards Conference (PMAC 2022), PHM organized a side meeting to examine different aspects of the world we envisage. During the meeting, PHM premiered three short videos (funded by PMAC) to put forth that vision–one that takes into consideration community-based, publicly funded and provided health services;…
PHM Canada, along with other organizations, signed onto a letter (seen below) sent to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) to act on vaccine apartheid as a product of racism and colonialism. The letter asks for urgent action appeal on Covid-19 vaccines…
PHM Canada signed onto a letter (seen below) of their failure to sign onto a temporary waiver of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS Agreement) for technologies related to preventing the Covid-19 virus. The letter was addressed to Mary Ng, Minister of Small Business, Export Promotion…
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is visiting President Biden next week, and it may be our best chance to put pressure on her to support a waiver of the World Trade Organization’s TRIPS rules to unlock the intellectual property barriers now limiting global access to COVID-19 vaccines and treatments. Read more from Public Citizen.…
PHM Canada, along with other organizations across the world, signed onto ONE Canada’s joint statement (seen below) calling on the Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, to act more urgently on his government’s commitment to share vaccines with COVAX. COVAX is a global COVID vaccine distribution initiative to ensure…