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Advocacy group Health Justice Initiative is taking the Health minister and Health department to court to disclose all COVID-19 vaccine contracts entered into and any applicable agreements with relevant companies and entities. The Health Justice Initiative is forcing the health department to open its books on the secret COVID-19 vaccine contracts it signed with pharmaceutical manufacturers.

This follows an access-to-information request to the National Department of Health which was refused. These deals were clinched at the height of the coronavirus pandemic when the government relaxed its procurement rules to try to speed up access to personal protective equipment, tests and vaccines.

For more on the litigation, we’re now joined virtually by the director of the Health Justice Initiative, Fatima Hassan.

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