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05.08.22

Global Health

Truss uses leftover vaccine donations to cut up to £300m in foreign aid

UK aid cuts mean an estimated 7.1 million children have lost their education, 5.3 million women and girls have lost access to modern family planning methods, and nearly 12 million children and women h...

10.03.22

Global Health

UK could use vaccine donations to slash £140m from foreign aid spending

New rules could let countries claim back more than they paid for surplus doses that were given away

08.10.21

Global Health

How Covax failed on its promise to vaccinate the world

The inside story of how an ambitious global collaboration fell badly short of its lofty goals

23.09.21

Global Health

Evicted in less than 10 minutes: courts fail tenants broken by pandemic

Rigid rules on possession orders leave judges unable to take tenant's situation into account

22.09.21

Global Health

Oxygen giant spreads misinformation in Namibia

Namibian hospitals were wrongly told that switching to onsite oxygen generator plants could put human life at risk, the Bureau has learned

18.09.21

Global Health

Financing fake news: Nike and Amazon advertise on Covid conspiracy sites

‘Opaque by design’ system funnelling money from major brands towards dangerous outlets

01.09.21

Global Health

Red tape keeping Covid vaccine out of reach for nearly 4m undocumented migrants across Europe

Administrative barriers in at least 10 European countries are blocking access to vital vaccines

25.08.21

Global Health

Oxygen companies put profit above patients by spreading misinformation in Mexico

As Covid-19 threatens to overwhelm Mexico’s health services, gas companies have spent time, effort and money deterring hospitals from installing cheaper, more reliable on-site oxygen plants

16.06.21

Global Health

Breakthrough deal to help solve Covid oxygen crisis

Two of the world's largest oxygen companies have agreed to improve access to oxygen after the Bureau investigated high prices in Africa and shortages across the world

10.06.21

Big Tech

So much hot air: Twitter and Facebook let quack Covid cures spread unchecked in India

Social media platforms are failing to get to grips with a wave of dangerous misinformation targeting Indians on social media

25.05.21

Global Health

After India: The countries on the brink of another Covid oxygen crisis

Dozens of countries face severe oxygen shortages because of surging Covid-19 cases and low vaccination rates, a Bureau analysis has found

25.05.21

Global Health

Explainer: how medical oxygen is made

Medical oxygen has become vital as Covid-19 spreads – and the gap in access to it is stark

19.04.21

Global Health

Pfizer backs down over “unreasonable” terms in South Africa vaccine deal

Pharma giant had previously demanded governments put up state assets as collateral for Covid19 vaccine deals

11.04.21

Big Tech

Instagraft: Covid conspiracy theorists selling silver spray and $50 seawater

The Bureau has identified more than 100 Instagram accounts using the platform to make money through spreading misinformation about Covid-19 and vaccines

10.03.21

Global Health

Vaccine contract forces a government to pay if Pfizer makes mistakes

An unredacted Pfizer contract with the Dominican Republic shows the company has been given wide-ranging immunity against legal action, meaning it cannot be held liable for problems at any step of its...

24.02.21

Big Tech

Revealed: Data giant given ‘emergency’ Covid contract had been wooing NHS for months

Controversial tech firm Palantir now holds £23m deal to oversee critical data store of patient records

23.02.21

Global Health

‘Held to ransom’: Pfizer demands governments gamble with state assets to secure vaccine deal

The Bureau has learned that the pharmaceutical giant also insists on indemnity against its own negligence in hardball negotiations with Latin American countries

06.02.21

Global Health

The next Covid crisis: a vaccine apartheid endangering us all

Unequal distribution of Covid-19 vaccines will harm all of us – leaving reservoirs for the virus across the world in which new, potentially more dangerous strains will emerge and spread

31.01.21

Big Tech

Misinformation market: The money-making tools Facebook hands to Covid cranks

The Bureau has found hundreds of pages using monetisation tools designed by Facebook while spreading dangerous misinformation about Covid-19 and vaccines

25.11.20

Health

Imprisoned under the cover of Covid

How new pandemic rules were used to justify a violent raid on an LGBTQ+ homeless shelter in Uganda

Truss uses leftover vaccine donations to cut up to £300m in foreign aid

UK could use vaccine donations to slash £140m from foreign aid spending

How Covax failed on its promise to vaccinate the world

Evicted in less than 10 minutes: courts fail tenants broken by pandemic

Oxygen giant spreads misinformation in Namibia

Financing fake news: Nike and Amazon advertise on Covid conspiracy sites

Red tape keeping Covid vaccine out of reach for nearly 4m undocumented migrants across Europe

Oxygen companies put profit above patients by spreading misinformation in Mexico

Breakthrough deal to help solve Covid oxygen crisis

So much hot air: Twitter and Facebook let quack Covid cures spread unchecked in India

After India: The countries on the brink of another Covid oxygen crisis

Explainer: how medical oxygen is made

Pfizer backs down over “unreasonable” terms in South Africa vaccine deal

Instagraft: Covid conspiracy theorists selling silver spray and $50 seawater

Vaccine contract forces a government to pay if Pfizer makes mistakes

Revealed: Data giant given ‘emergency’ Covid contract had been wooing NHS for months

‘Held to ransom’: Pfizer demands governments gamble with state assets to secure vaccine deal

The next Covid crisis: a vaccine apartheid endangering us all

Misinformation market: The money-making tools Facebook hands to Covid cranks

Imprisoned under the cover of Covid

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