Access to essential medicines remains a daunting problem for the poor across the world. Activists from the Delhi Network of Positive People have spent more than a month protesting in front of the offices of the National AIDS Control Organization in India, fighting against a shortage of antiretroviral drugs.

On 7 April we mark World Health Day, also referred to by health activists as People’s Health Day. On this occasion,  PHM and Peoples Dispatch published Special Issue of People's Health Dispatch exploring the idea of Health for All. The day marks the anniversary of the formation of the World Health Organization in 1948.

News of a tentative TRIPS waiver compromise, allegedly penned by a group of four countries - the United States, the European Union, South Africa and India, was published just around the time when the world was entering the third year of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Protests and strikes by health workers all over the world have marked the first couple of months of 2022.

Millions of people around the world have been thrown into poverty during the Covid-19 pandemic, yet big pharmaceutical companies have reported record levels of profit. Thanks to sales of the Comirnaty vaccine, in 2021 Pfizer has secured a 134% rise in revenue compared to the previous year.

Thanks to the hard work and dedication of scientists in South Africa, the world was alerted to the omicron variant at the end of November. For their respect of international public health guidance and transparency, most of southern Africa has been rewarded with travel bans by rich countries.