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Paper authors	Hakan Seckinelgin
In panel on	Taking ideology out of humanitarianism? The everyday, corporate interests and the politics of global solidarity
Paper presenter(s) will be presenting	In-Person / Online

Abstract

In this paper I analyse the international response to COCID 19 in Africa through the COVAX initiative. The aim is to consider the nature of humanitarianism that is underwriting this initiatives and implications of this humanitarian approach for wellbeing of people in the context of the pandemic. I look at the relationship between COVAX as a mechanism to deal with COVID pandemic in Africa and what I consider to the pharmaceutical industrial complex in its approach to vaccine provision in what is considered to be a humanitarian context. I draw on the lessons we have learned from HIV treatment provision and the way in which a medical humanitarianism is developed through this approach framing engagement with new pandemics. I particularly focus on the how this approach reproduce and legitimates a charity approach in resistance to justice based distributive humanitarian thinking.

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