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Africa-Press – Namibia. <\/strong><\/span>U.S. multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology corporation, Pfizer, has been bullying governments around the world in COVID-19 vaccine contracts, said a recent report.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe contracts offer a rare glimpse into the power one pharmaceutical corporation has gained to silence governments, throttle supply, shift risk and maximize profits in the worst public health crisis in a century,\u201d said the report published in late October by Washington-based non-profit, progressive consumer rights advocacy group and think tank Public Citizen.<\/p>\n

Citing six examples, the report pointed out that Pfizer not only reserves the right to silence governments, tightly controls vaccine donations, and uses anyone\u2019s intellectual property it pleases largely without consequence, but also bypasses domestic legal processes by empowering private arbitrators to decide disputes in secret, enables itself to go after state assets, and enjoys unilateral authority for key decisions.<\/p>\n

\u201cPfizer\u2019s dominance over sovereign countries poses fundamental challenges to the pandemic response,\u201d the report noted, adding the corporation\u2019s demands have been slowing purchase agreements and even pushing back the delivery schedule of vaccines.<\/p>\n

\u201cPublic health should come first,\u201d it said, urging governments worldwide to push back.<\/p>\n

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