We need a People's Vaccine
To end the COVID-19 pandemic, the vaccine must be free, fair, and accessible to all.
COVID-19 vaccines could be our way out of this global pandemic nightmare, and get us back to work, back to school, and back to our lives – but only if they are accessible to everyone, everywhere, as soon as possible.
But there is not enough supply of the vaccines – 9 out of 10 people in poor countries won’t even have access to a vaccine this year.
COVID-19 anywhere is COVID-19 everywhere. To end this pandemic, we need a People’s Vaccine: a patent-free, mass produced, and fairly distributed vaccine available free of charge to everyone, rich and poor alike.
Oxfam is a member of the People’s Vaccine Alliance, coalition of organizations and activists united under a common aim of campaigning for a People’s Vaccine for COVID-19.
The campaign achieved a major victory on May 5th, 2021 when the US Trade Representative Katherin Tai announced that the US government would support waiving intellectual property rights on COVID-19 vaccines, “an essential step toward increasing manufacturing vaccines and toward worldwide immunization.”

What you can do right now
We’re calling on President Biden to make the COVID-19 vaccine a People’s Vaccine: free, fair, and accessible to all.
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An Open Letter to President Biden
President Biden has tremendous power to help decide who gets access to protection from this virus, when and at what cost. As a cross-section of leaders from public health, business, faith-based, racial justice and labor organizations, public service, entertainment and economics, we join our voices to call on the President of the United States to commit to a People’s Vaccine.
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Pressure on companies to share COVID vaccine technology
Shareholder resolutions and popular mobilizations feature calls for expanded production.

Two years of COVID-19: What Oxfam’s been doing
Oxfam’s global response to the coronavirus pandemic has reached across the world to help people survive, while also advocating for a People’s Vaccine.

Inequality Kills
Inequality contributes to the death of at least one person every four seconds.
A #PeoplesVaccine is
Free
Our tax dollars paid for the research to develop these life-saving vaccines, so they should be a public good.
Fair
People who bear the biggest burden from COVID-19—especially frontline health and essential workers everywhere—should get protection before the wealthy and well-connected.
Accessible
The vaccine must be publicly available for everyone, everywhere, regardless of how much money they have or where they live. No corporation or country should have monopoly control over a life-saving medicine we all need.