CBC News
Canada’s indecisiveness on TRIPS waiver blocking efforts to vaccine equity
10 June 2022
Our Founder and Strategist Tian Johnson spoke to CBC News’ Steve D’Souza about the upcoming World Trade Organization’s 12th Ministerial Conference meetings and the role of Canada.
Canada has long proclaimed its moral leadership on issues impacting the vulnerable. Canadian Prime Justin Trudeau must now walk the talk of solidarity and stand with 100 countries calling for a #TRIPS waiver.
TRT world
Rich nations fall short of vaccine donation promises
22 October 2021
Maaza Seyoum, African Alliance Lead Communications and PVA Africa Coordinator was interviewed live on TRT World about vaccine inequity and the broken promises of wealthy countries and western pharmaceutical companies.
Channels TV
Vaccine Independence Managing The Pandemic In Africa
23 June 2021
Tian spoke to Channels TV to share their thoughts on how slow vaccination is moving across Africa and they feel it is absolutely outrageous, immoral, unjust and violent. But it is also the way the system has been set up to work. So the reality we see across Africa today is a direct result of the system that has been in place for years. The fact that we see in countries in the global north, vaccinating young children who have minimal risk of COVID, before we in Africa can even vaccinate our healthcare workers is an absolute moral outrage and there needs to be a lot more pressure put on those who are responsible for the condition we are in today.
Newzroom Afrika
A complaint has been laid against Chief Justice Mogoeng
13 January 2021
Founder and Lead of the African Alliance, queer advocate and member of the Ministerial Advisory Committee on the COVID-19 vaccine (MAC) mandated to develop a COVID-19 vaccine allocation framework for South Africa and provide recommendations to the MAC – Tian (them/they) has, for nearly two decades, working on a vast range of development areas with a track record of navigating and influencing policy and community spaces from “grassroots” to “grasstops”.
Tian spoke to Newsroom Afrika to share their thoughts and concerns on the comments made by the Chief Justice on vaccines.
Newzroom Afrika
The importance of participants in research
12 June 2020
Founder and Lead of the African Alliance, queer advocate and member of the Ministerial Advisory Committee on the COVID-19 vaccine (MAC) mandated to develop a COVID-19 vaccine allocation framework for South Africa and provide recommendations to the MAC – Tian (them/they) has, for nearly two decades, working on a vast range of development areas with a track record of navigating and influencing policy and community spaces from “grassroots” to “grasstops”.
Tian spoke to Newsroom Afrika to share their thoughts about the importance of participants in vaccine or treatment research. Find out more as Tian explains how South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) has set up guidelines on how research should be conducted responsibly.