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Articles tagged with "Health inequality"

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25.01.23

Global Health

The drug was meant to save children’s lives. Instead, they’re dying.

Reporting by the Bureau reveals that at least a dozen brands of asparaginase, a key childhood cancer drug, have been proven to be poor quality, with ten still on the market.

Gemma Carter with her daughter in the kitchen

16.12.22

Health Inequality

Thousands of vulnerable people cut off from gas and electricity for days at a time

Stark figures of those forced to 'self-disconnect' only paint fraction of the picture as cost-of-living crisis takes hold

10.11.22

Global Health

Who killed the vaccine waiver?

How Big Pharma and various government officials worked to water down a radical proposal aimed at giving poorer countries greater access to vaccines

Lauren Campbell-Thompson helps twin sister Rianna into the bathroom of their Bromley home

05.04.22

Health Inequality

Disabled people trapped waiting years for vital home adaptations

Thousands of disabled people across the UK are waiting months to be assessed for vital adaptations to their home, and years to get the work done, the Bureau has found

04.02.22

Our Impact

Community power, corporate change and courtroom justice: the Bureau’s impact in 2021

Unearthing facts, uncovering wrongdoing, collaboration and meaningful storytelling made the Bureau’s journalism more impactful than ever in 2021

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

15.07.21

Health Inequality

Most GP surgeries refuse to register undocumented migrants despite NHS policy

Survey finds official guidelines being extensively ignored to leave hundreds of thousands facing vaccine labyrinth

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

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

10.05.21

Health Inequality

Revealed: Thousands more deaths in home care during pandemic

At least 25,000 people who received care in their own homes died during the pandemic, with reported deaths doubling in many areas

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

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...

04.03.21

Revealed: Home Office knew housing refugees at run down barracks risked mass infection

Internal reports seen by the Bureau detail health concerns over ‘run down’ sites where hundreds of people have contracted Covid-19

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

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