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Eva Schacherl

Eva Schacherl has worked for social and environmental justice since the 1980s.

Northern countries need to avoid COVID colonialism

Opinion | BY EVA SCHACHERL | January 3, 2022
The first response to the Omicron variant has stigmatized African countries as a source of disease—even though it was quickly found to also be in Europe and North America. The HIV/AIDS pandemic has shown that waging war on a virus while stigmatizing and discriminating against its sufferers, and ignoring social and economic inequalities, does not work, writes Eva Schacherl. Photograph courtesy of PxHere
Opinion | BY EVA SCHACHERL | January 3, 2022
Opinion | BY EVA SCHACHERL | January 3, 2022
The first response to the Omicron variant has stigmatized African countries as a source of disease—even though it was quickly found to also be in Europe and North America. The HIV/AIDS pandemic has shown that waging war on a virus while stigmatizing and discriminating against its sufferers, and ignoring social and economic inequalities, does not work, writes Eva Schacherl. Photograph courtesy of PxHere