{"id":22521,"date":"2020-08-13T07:00:05","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T07:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/?post_type=noticia&p=22521"},"modified":"2021-04-01T14:59:30","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T14:59:30","slug":"brazilian-norms-to-fight-covid-19-ignore-acess-to-the-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"noticia","link":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/noticias\/brazilian-norms-to-fight-covid-19-ignore-acess-to-the-vaccine\/","title":"Brazilian norms to fight covid-19 ignore access to the vaccine","content":"

Despite the high number of decrees, ordinances and provisional measures issued by the country, immunisation of the Brazilian people against Covid-19 does not figure in the federal government\u00b4s priorities, as shown in the third edition of the\u00a0<\/span>Boletim Direitos na Pandemia<\/b> (Bulletin on Rights during the Pandemic)<\/b>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

From January to July 2020, federal executive powers issued 1,838 legal norms concerning the novel coronavirus pandemic. Only five of them concern vaccines and none of them offer guidelines on how federal government intends to organise production, distribution and mass immunisation in Brazil. Furthermore, there is no stimulus for research.<\/span><\/p>\n

The document shows that while the vaccine is not the focus, it is possible to pinpoint authoritarian measures by the government that have no direct connection to combatting the pandemic. A high number of the actions had been gaining ground even before the start of the public health crisis and have found the ideal opportunity for legalisation without significant resistance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

One example of this is the provisional measure that introduces the possibility of nominating chancellors of federal institutions, without elections, on a temporary basis, during the period of emergency.<\/span><\/p>\n

The <\/span>Bulletin on Rights during the Pandemic<\/b>\u00a0is part of the project \u201cMapping and analysis of legal norms in response to Covid-19 in Brazil,\u201d set up by\u00a0<\/span>Cepedisa (Centre for Research and Studies on Sanitation Rights)<\/b><\/a><\/span>\u00a0in the Public Health Faculty at USP (University of S\u00e3o Paulo) in collaboration with Conectas Human Rights.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The latest edition includes participation from teams at LAUT (Centre for Analysis of Freedom and Authoritarianism), who have analysed the impact of the pandemic on Brazilian democracy, members of ABIA (the Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association) and the GTPI (Working Group on Intellectual Property) who explain the importance of a compulsory licence for vaccines in handling the pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n