‘Dose Donations are Proving to be a Good Medicine for Vaccine Nationalism’, says UNICEF’s Gian Gandhi 20/07/2021 Priti Patniak/Geneva Health Files As an official partner of the COVAX Facility, UNICEF is responsible for procurement, logistics and delivery of COVID-19 vaccines. PRITI PATNAIK spoke with Gian Gandhi, who coordinates COVAX operations for UNICEF, to get a sense of the challenges faced by the organization during the pandemic in the context of production shortages and realities at the […] Continue reading -> European Union’s WTO Ambassador on TRIPS Waiver: ‘Only a Multi-Pronged Approach Will Bring About Real Change’ 29/06/2021 Priti Patniak/Geneva Health Files As World Trade Organization (WTO) members continue to negotiate on ways to streamline and adapt intellectual property rules in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we bring you this interview with the European Union’s ambassador to the WTO, João Aguiar Machado. He discusses the different strands in the EU’s overall strategy on trade and health […] Continue reading -> The ‘Patent Bargain’, Public Good & COVID19 26/04/2021 Priti Patniak/Geneva Health Files As the hotly contested proposal for an IP waiver on COVID-related health products comes up again for debate on Friday, 30 April at the World Trade Organization’s TRIPS Council, legal expert Hyo Yoon Kang looks at the foundations of IP law to challenge “TRIPS waiver” naysayers. Geneva Health Files [GHF]: You have argued that IP […] Continue reading ->
European Union’s WTO Ambassador on TRIPS Waiver: ‘Only a Multi-Pronged Approach Will Bring About Real Change’ 29/06/2021 Priti Patniak/Geneva Health Files As World Trade Organization (WTO) members continue to negotiate on ways to streamline and adapt intellectual property rules in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we bring you this interview with the European Union’s ambassador to the WTO, João Aguiar Machado. He discusses the different strands in the EU’s overall strategy on trade and health […] Continue reading -> The ‘Patent Bargain’, Public Good & COVID19 26/04/2021 Priti Patniak/Geneva Health Files As the hotly contested proposal for an IP waiver on COVID-related health products comes up again for debate on Friday, 30 April at the World Trade Organization’s TRIPS Council, legal expert Hyo Yoon Kang looks at the foundations of IP law to challenge “TRIPS waiver” naysayers. Geneva Health Files [GHF]: You have argued that IP […] Continue reading ->
The ‘Patent Bargain’, Public Good & COVID19 26/04/2021 Priti Patniak/Geneva Health Files As the hotly contested proposal for an IP waiver on COVID-related health products comes up again for debate on Friday, 30 April at the World Trade Organization’s TRIPS Council, legal expert Hyo Yoon Kang looks at the foundations of IP law to challenge “TRIPS waiver” naysayers. Geneva Health Files [GHF]: You have argued that IP […] Continue reading ->