Philanthropy Alone Will Not Ensure Global Access To COVID-19 Vaccines – South Africa’s Take 25/11/2020 Kerry Cullinan & Elaine Ruth Fletcher South Africa is campaigning for the World Trade Organization (WTO) to waiver intellectual property rights on all products related to COVID-19 for the duration of the pandemic. Mustaqeem De Gama, Counsellor at the South African Permanent Mission in Geneva, is leading the campaign. Kerry Cullinan and Elaine Fletcher spoke to him about the reasons why […] Continue reading -> AstraZeneca Breakthrough Heightens Competition Between Two Different World Views On Vaccine Procurement & Distribution 23/11/2020 Elaine Ruth Fletcher, Menaka Rao & Kerry Cullinan The vaccine zero hour is approaching. As Norway’s Minister of International Development Dag Ulstein and South Africa’s Minister of Health Zweili Mkhize made yet another urgent plea Monday for some US$4.3 billion right now and another $US23.9 billion in 2021 to massively roll out new COVID19 vaccines, drugs and tests that are now coming on […] Continue reading -> How Can “Open Innovation” Support Research On Infectious Diseases? 18/11/2020 Geoffrey Kamadi Finding the right combination of open innovation – that is the free sharing of expertise, knowledge and data – and intellectual property (IP) that may drive private investments in expensive new technologies, can be a difficult balancing act to attain. But as the COVID-19 pandemic has underlined, it is more and more critical to etch […] Continue reading -> WHO Proposes Swiss-Based Global Repository For Sharing Biological Samples Related To Disease Outbreak Threats 13/11/2020 Menaka Rao & Elaine Ruth Fletcher BREAKING – World Health Organization Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has proposed the creation of a Swiss-based global repository for sharing pathogen materials and clinical samples related to potential outbreak threats – allowing for the more rapid development of medical interventions. The COVID-19 pandemic has shown the urgent need for this kind of system, said […] Continue reading -> $US 300 Million In New COVID-19 Funding Initiatives Rushed Out By Gates, France & European Commission 12/11/2020 Elaine Ruth Fletcher A series of new COVID-19 drug and vaccine funding commitments worth just over US$300 million were announced on Thursday by the Gates Foundation, France and the European Commission – amidst a quickening pace of anticipation that at least one, if not two, COVID-19 vaccines may soon become available. Appearing at the Paris Peace Forum, Melinda […] Continue reading -> Corporate Charity – Is The Gates Foundation Addressing Or Reinforcing Systemic Problems Raised By COVID-19? 31/10/2020 Rohit Malpani, Brook Baker & Mohga Kamal-Yanni Two competing approaches to promote access to medicines were born during the HIV/AIDS pandemic in the year 2000. Today, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, these same approaches are once more on a collision course. On the one side is the ‘international’ COVID response, led in name by WHO, but in fact by what […] Continue reading -> Gavi Board Chair Okonjo-Iweala Is Recommended As Next World Trade Organization Director-General – US Opposition Stalls Final WTO Decision 28/10/2020 Elaine Ruth Fletcher & J Hacker Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, board chair of Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance, on Wednesday was named as the favored candidate to be the next World Trade Organization director-general – after a months-long WTO campaign process and in a decisive moment of the COVID-19 pandemic. But as the United States came out in favor of the Republic of Korea’s […] Continue reading -> Leading US Expert Anthony Fauci: ‘Cautiously Optimistic’ About COVID-19 Vaccine Approval This Month Or Next 21/10/2020 Raisa Santos America’s most-respected public health guru, Dr Anthony Fauci, said Wednesday that he is “cautiously optimistic’ that at least one COVID-19 vaccine will prove to be safe and effective later this month or next. While warning that “one can never guarantee a safe and effective vaccine… we are cautiously optimistic that we will have one based […] Continue reading -> Ratification of Africa Medicines Agency Treaty Inches Forward – Africa CDC Head Calls It ‘Much-Needed’ 16/10/2020 Paul Adepoju IBADAN, Nigeria – Nearly two years after the Assembly of the African Union, adopted a milestone treaty establishing an African Medicines Agency (AMA) that could provide a more unified approach to regulatory approval of new medicines and vaccines, the AMA treaty is yet to enter into force – because it has not been ratified by […] Continue reading -> The Indian/South African Proposal For a WTO Waiver On IP For COVID-19 Related Health Products – What It Means? 14/10/2020 Ellen 't Hoen A sweeping proposal by India and South Africa to suspend the protection of intellectual property (IP) related to COVID-19 health products is set to come before the The World Trade Organization’s TRIPS Council this week. The closed door discussion lays the groundwork for what could prove to be the most significant public debate over […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
AstraZeneca Breakthrough Heightens Competition Between Two Different World Views On Vaccine Procurement & Distribution 23/11/2020 Elaine Ruth Fletcher, Menaka Rao & Kerry Cullinan The vaccine zero hour is approaching. As Norway’s Minister of International Development Dag Ulstein and South Africa’s Minister of Health Zweili Mkhize made yet another urgent plea Monday for some US$4.3 billion right now and another $US23.9 billion in 2021 to massively roll out new COVID19 vaccines, drugs and tests that are now coming on […] Continue reading -> How Can “Open Innovation” Support Research On Infectious Diseases? 18/11/2020 Geoffrey Kamadi Finding the right combination of open innovation – that is the free sharing of expertise, knowledge and data – and intellectual property (IP) that may drive private investments in expensive new technologies, can be a difficult balancing act to attain. But as the COVID-19 pandemic has underlined, it is more and more critical to etch […] Continue reading -> WHO Proposes Swiss-Based Global Repository For Sharing Biological Samples Related To Disease Outbreak Threats 13/11/2020 Menaka Rao & Elaine Ruth Fletcher BREAKING – World Health Organization Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has proposed the creation of a Swiss-based global repository for sharing pathogen materials and clinical samples related to potential outbreak threats – allowing for the more rapid development of medical interventions. The COVID-19 pandemic has shown the urgent need for this kind of system, said […] Continue reading -> $US 300 Million In New COVID-19 Funding Initiatives Rushed Out By Gates, France & European Commission 12/11/2020 Elaine Ruth Fletcher A series of new COVID-19 drug and vaccine funding commitments worth just over US$300 million were announced on Thursday by the Gates Foundation, France and the European Commission – amidst a quickening pace of anticipation that at least one, if not two, COVID-19 vaccines may soon become available. Appearing at the Paris Peace Forum, Melinda […] Continue reading -> Corporate Charity – Is The Gates Foundation Addressing Or Reinforcing Systemic Problems Raised By COVID-19? 31/10/2020 Rohit Malpani, Brook Baker & Mohga Kamal-Yanni Two competing approaches to promote access to medicines were born during the HIV/AIDS pandemic in the year 2000. Today, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, these same approaches are once more on a collision course. On the one side is the ‘international’ COVID response, led in name by WHO, but in fact by what […] Continue reading -> Gavi Board Chair Okonjo-Iweala Is Recommended As Next World Trade Organization Director-General – US Opposition Stalls Final WTO Decision 28/10/2020 Elaine Ruth Fletcher & J Hacker Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, board chair of Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance, on Wednesday was named as the favored candidate to be the next World Trade Organization director-general – after a months-long WTO campaign process and in a decisive moment of the COVID-19 pandemic. But as the United States came out in favor of the Republic of Korea’s […] Continue reading -> Leading US Expert Anthony Fauci: ‘Cautiously Optimistic’ About COVID-19 Vaccine Approval This Month Or Next 21/10/2020 Raisa Santos America’s most-respected public health guru, Dr Anthony Fauci, said Wednesday that he is “cautiously optimistic’ that at least one COVID-19 vaccine will prove to be safe and effective later this month or next. While warning that “one can never guarantee a safe and effective vaccine… we are cautiously optimistic that we will have one based […] Continue reading -> Ratification of Africa Medicines Agency Treaty Inches Forward – Africa CDC Head Calls It ‘Much-Needed’ 16/10/2020 Paul Adepoju IBADAN, Nigeria – Nearly two years after the Assembly of the African Union, adopted a milestone treaty establishing an African Medicines Agency (AMA) that could provide a more unified approach to regulatory approval of new medicines and vaccines, the AMA treaty is yet to enter into force – because it has not been ratified by […] Continue reading -> The Indian/South African Proposal For a WTO Waiver On IP For COVID-19 Related Health Products – What It Means? 14/10/2020 Ellen 't Hoen A sweeping proposal by India and South Africa to suspend the protection of intellectual property (IP) related to COVID-19 health products is set to come before the The World Trade Organization’s TRIPS Council this week. The closed door discussion lays the groundwork for what could prove to be the most significant public debate over […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
How Can “Open Innovation” Support Research On Infectious Diseases? 18/11/2020 Geoffrey Kamadi Finding the right combination of open innovation – that is the free sharing of expertise, knowledge and data – and intellectual property (IP) that may drive private investments in expensive new technologies, can be a difficult balancing act to attain. But as the COVID-19 pandemic has underlined, it is more and more critical to etch […] Continue reading -> WHO Proposes Swiss-Based Global Repository For Sharing Biological Samples Related To Disease Outbreak Threats 13/11/2020 Menaka Rao & Elaine Ruth Fletcher BREAKING – World Health Organization Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has proposed the creation of a Swiss-based global repository for sharing pathogen materials and clinical samples related to potential outbreak threats – allowing for the more rapid development of medical interventions. The COVID-19 pandemic has shown the urgent need for this kind of system, said […] Continue reading -> $US 300 Million In New COVID-19 Funding Initiatives Rushed Out By Gates, France & European Commission 12/11/2020 Elaine Ruth Fletcher A series of new COVID-19 drug and vaccine funding commitments worth just over US$300 million were announced on Thursday by the Gates Foundation, France and the European Commission – amidst a quickening pace of anticipation that at least one, if not two, COVID-19 vaccines may soon become available. Appearing at the Paris Peace Forum, Melinda […] Continue reading -> Corporate Charity – Is The Gates Foundation Addressing Or Reinforcing Systemic Problems Raised By COVID-19? 31/10/2020 Rohit Malpani, Brook Baker & Mohga Kamal-Yanni Two competing approaches to promote access to medicines were born during the HIV/AIDS pandemic in the year 2000. Today, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, these same approaches are once more on a collision course. On the one side is the ‘international’ COVID response, led in name by WHO, but in fact by what […] Continue reading -> Gavi Board Chair Okonjo-Iweala Is Recommended As Next World Trade Organization Director-General – US Opposition Stalls Final WTO Decision 28/10/2020 Elaine Ruth Fletcher & J Hacker Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, board chair of Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance, on Wednesday was named as the favored candidate to be the next World Trade Organization director-general – after a months-long WTO campaign process and in a decisive moment of the COVID-19 pandemic. But as the United States came out in favor of the Republic of Korea’s […] Continue reading -> Leading US Expert Anthony Fauci: ‘Cautiously Optimistic’ About COVID-19 Vaccine Approval This Month Or Next 21/10/2020 Raisa Santos America’s most-respected public health guru, Dr Anthony Fauci, said Wednesday that he is “cautiously optimistic’ that at least one COVID-19 vaccine will prove to be safe and effective later this month or next. While warning that “one can never guarantee a safe and effective vaccine… we are cautiously optimistic that we will have one based […] Continue reading -> Ratification of Africa Medicines Agency Treaty Inches Forward – Africa CDC Head Calls It ‘Much-Needed’ 16/10/2020 Paul Adepoju IBADAN, Nigeria – Nearly two years after the Assembly of the African Union, adopted a milestone treaty establishing an African Medicines Agency (AMA) that could provide a more unified approach to regulatory approval of new medicines and vaccines, the AMA treaty is yet to enter into force – because it has not been ratified by […] Continue reading -> The Indian/South African Proposal For a WTO Waiver On IP For COVID-19 Related Health Products – What It Means? 14/10/2020 Ellen 't Hoen A sweeping proposal by India and South Africa to suspend the protection of intellectual property (IP) related to COVID-19 health products is set to come before the The World Trade Organization’s TRIPS Council this week. The closed door discussion lays the groundwork for what could prove to be the most significant public debate over […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
WHO Proposes Swiss-Based Global Repository For Sharing Biological Samples Related To Disease Outbreak Threats 13/11/2020 Menaka Rao & Elaine Ruth Fletcher BREAKING – World Health Organization Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has proposed the creation of a Swiss-based global repository for sharing pathogen materials and clinical samples related to potential outbreak threats – allowing for the more rapid development of medical interventions. The COVID-19 pandemic has shown the urgent need for this kind of system, said […] Continue reading -> $US 300 Million In New COVID-19 Funding Initiatives Rushed Out By Gates, France & European Commission 12/11/2020 Elaine Ruth Fletcher A series of new COVID-19 drug and vaccine funding commitments worth just over US$300 million were announced on Thursday by the Gates Foundation, France and the European Commission – amidst a quickening pace of anticipation that at least one, if not two, COVID-19 vaccines may soon become available. Appearing at the Paris Peace Forum, Melinda […] Continue reading -> Corporate Charity – Is The Gates Foundation Addressing Or Reinforcing Systemic Problems Raised By COVID-19? 31/10/2020 Rohit Malpani, Brook Baker & Mohga Kamal-Yanni Two competing approaches to promote access to medicines were born during the HIV/AIDS pandemic in the year 2000. Today, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, these same approaches are once more on a collision course. On the one side is the ‘international’ COVID response, led in name by WHO, but in fact by what […] Continue reading -> Gavi Board Chair Okonjo-Iweala Is Recommended As Next World Trade Organization Director-General – US Opposition Stalls Final WTO Decision 28/10/2020 Elaine Ruth Fletcher & J Hacker Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, board chair of Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance, on Wednesday was named as the favored candidate to be the next World Trade Organization director-general – after a months-long WTO campaign process and in a decisive moment of the COVID-19 pandemic. But as the United States came out in favor of the Republic of Korea’s […] Continue reading -> Leading US Expert Anthony Fauci: ‘Cautiously Optimistic’ About COVID-19 Vaccine Approval This Month Or Next 21/10/2020 Raisa Santos America’s most-respected public health guru, Dr Anthony Fauci, said Wednesday that he is “cautiously optimistic’ that at least one COVID-19 vaccine will prove to be safe and effective later this month or next. While warning that “one can never guarantee a safe and effective vaccine… we are cautiously optimistic that we will have one based […] Continue reading -> Ratification of Africa Medicines Agency Treaty Inches Forward – Africa CDC Head Calls It ‘Much-Needed’ 16/10/2020 Paul Adepoju IBADAN, Nigeria – Nearly two years after the Assembly of the African Union, adopted a milestone treaty establishing an African Medicines Agency (AMA) that could provide a more unified approach to regulatory approval of new medicines and vaccines, the AMA treaty is yet to enter into force – because it has not been ratified by […] Continue reading -> The Indian/South African Proposal For a WTO Waiver On IP For COVID-19 Related Health Products – What It Means? 14/10/2020 Ellen 't Hoen A sweeping proposal by India and South Africa to suspend the protection of intellectual property (IP) related to COVID-19 health products is set to come before the The World Trade Organization’s TRIPS Council this week. The closed door discussion lays the groundwork for what could prove to be the most significant public debate over […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
$US 300 Million In New COVID-19 Funding Initiatives Rushed Out By Gates, France & European Commission 12/11/2020 Elaine Ruth Fletcher A series of new COVID-19 drug and vaccine funding commitments worth just over US$300 million were announced on Thursday by the Gates Foundation, France and the European Commission – amidst a quickening pace of anticipation that at least one, if not two, COVID-19 vaccines may soon become available. Appearing at the Paris Peace Forum, Melinda […] Continue reading -> Corporate Charity – Is The Gates Foundation Addressing Or Reinforcing Systemic Problems Raised By COVID-19? 31/10/2020 Rohit Malpani, Brook Baker & Mohga Kamal-Yanni Two competing approaches to promote access to medicines were born during the HIV/AIDS pandemic in the year 2000. Today, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, these same approaches are once more on a collision course. On the one side is the ‘international’ COVID response, led in name by WHO, but in fact by what […] Continue reading -> Gavi Board Chair Okonjo-Iweala Is Recommended As Next World Trade Organization Director-General – US Opposition Stalls Final WTO Decision 28/10/2020 Elaine Ruth Fletcher & J Hacker Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, board chair of Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance, on Wednesday was named as the favored candidate to be the next World Trade Organization director-general – after a months-long WTO campaign process and in a decisive moment of the COVID-19 pandemic. But as the United States came out in favor of the Republic of Korea’s […] Continue reading -> Leading US Expert Anthony Fauci: ‘Cautiously Optimistic’ About COVID-19 Vaccine Approval This Month Or Next 21/10/2020 Raisa Santos America’s most-respected public health guru, Dr Anthony Fauci, said Wednesday that he is “cautiously optimistic’ that at least one COVID-19 vaccine will prove to be safe and effective later this month or next. While warning that “one can never guarantee a safe and effective vaccine… we are cautiously optimistic that we will have one based […] Continue reading -> Ratification of Africa Medicines Agency Treaty Inches Forward – Africa CDC Head Calls It ‘Much-Needed’ 16/10/2020 Paul Adepoju IBADAN, Nigeria – Nearly two years after the Assembly of the African Union, adopted a milestone treaty establishing an African Medicines Agency (AMA) that could provide a more unified approach to regulatory approval of new medicines and vaccines, the AMA treaty is yet to enter into force – because it has not been ratified by […] Continue reading -> The Indian/South African Proposal For a WTO Waiver On IP For COVID-19 Related Health Products – What It Means? 14/10/2020 Ellen 't Hoen A sweeping proposal by India and South Africa to suspend the protection of intellectual property (IP) related to COVID-19 health products is set to come before the The World Trade Organization’s TRIPS Council this week. The closed door discussion lays the groundwork for what could prove to be the most significant public debate over […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Corporate Charity – Is The Gates Foundation Addressing Or Reinforcing Systemic Problems Raised By COVID-19? 31/10/2020 Rohit Malpani, Brook Baker & Mohga Kamal-Yanni Two competing approaches to promote access to medicines were born during the HIV/AIDS pandemic in the year 2000. Today, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, these same approaches are once more on a collision course. On the one side is the ‘international’ COVID response, led in name by WHO, but in fact by what […] Continue reading -> Gavi Board Chair Okonjo-Iweala Is Recommended As Next World Trade Organization Director-General – US Opposition Stalls Final WTO Decision 28/10/2020 Elaine Ruth Fletcher & J Hacker Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, board chair of Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance, on Wednesday was named as the favored candidate to be the next World Trade Organization director-general – after a months-long WTO campaign process and in a decisive moment of the COVID-19 pandemic. But as the United States came out in favor of the Republic of Korea’s […] Continue reading -> Leading US Expert Anthony Fauci: ‘Cautiously Optimistic’ About COVID-19 Vaccine Approval This Month Or Next 21/10/2020 Raisa Santos America’s most-respected public health guru, Dr Anthony Fauci, said Wednesday that he is “cautiously optimistic’ that at least one COVID-19 vaccine will prove to be safe and effective later this month or next. While warning that “one can never guarantee a safe and effective vaccine… we are cautiously optimistic that we will have one based […] Continue reading -> Ratification of Africa Medicines Agency Treaty Inches Forward – Africa CDC Head Calls It ‘Much-Needed’ 16/10/2020 Paul Adepoju IBADAN, Nigeria – Nearly two years after the Assembly of the African Union, adopted a milestone treaty establishing an African Medicines Agency (AMA) that could provide a more unified approach to regulatory approval of new medicines and vaccines, the AMA treaty is yet to enter into force – because it has not been ratified by […] Continue reading -> The Indian/South African Proposal For a WTO Waiver On IP For COVID-19 Related Health Products – What It Means? 14/10/2020 Ellen 't Hoen A sweeping proposal by India and South Africa to suspend the protection of intellectual property (IP) related to COVID-19 health products is set to come before the The World Trade Organization’s TRIPS Council this week. The closed door discussion lays the groundwork for what could prove to be the most significant public debate over […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Gavi Board Chair Okonjo-Iweala Is Recommended As Next World Trade Organization Director-General – US Opposition Stalls Final WTO Decision 28/10/2020 Elaine Ruth Fletcher & J Hacker Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, board chair of Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance, on Wednesday was named as the favored candidate to be the next World Trade Organization director-general – after a months-long WTO campaign process and in a decisive moment of the COVID-19 pandemic. But as the United States came out in favor of the Republic of Korea’s […] Continue reading -> Leading US Expert Anthony Fauci: ‘Cautiously Optimistic’ About COVID-19 Vaccine Approval This Month Or Next 21/10/2020 Raisa Santos America’s most-respected public health guru, Dr Anthony Fauci, said Wednesday that he is “cautiously optimistic’ that at least one COVID-19 vaccine will prove to be safe and effective later this month or next. While warning that “one can never guarantee a safe and effective vaccine… we are cautiously optimistic that we will have one based […] Continue reading -> Ratification of Africa Medicines Agency Treaty Inches Forward – Africa CDC Head Calls It ‘Much-Needed’ 16/10/2020 Paul Adepoju IBADAN, Nigeria – Nearly two years after the Assembly of the African Union, adopted a milestone treaty establishing an African Medicines Agency (AMA) that could provide a more unified approach to regulatory approval of new medicines and vaccines, the AMA treaty is yet to enter into force – because it has not been ratified by […] Continue reading -> The Indian/South African Proposal For a WTO Waiver On IP For COVID-19 Related Health Products – What It Means? 14/10/2020 Ellen 't Hoen A sweeping proposal by India and South Africa to suspend the protection of intellectual property (IP) related to COVID-19 health products is set to come before the The World Trade Organization’s TRIPS Council this week. The closed door discussion lays the groundwork for what could prove to be the most significant public debate over […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Leading US Expert Anthony Fauci: ‘Cautiously Optimistic’ About COVID-19 Vaccine Approval This Month Or Next 21/10/2020 Raisa Santos America’s most-respected public health guru, Dr Anthony Fauci, said Wednesday that he is “cautiously optimistic’ that at least one COVID-19 vaccine will prove to be safe and effective later this month or next. While warning that “one can never guarantee a safe and effective vaccine… we are cautiously optimistic that we will have one based […] Continue reading -> Ratification of Africa Medicines Agency Treaty Inches Forward – Africa CDC Head Calls It ‘Much-Needed’ 16/10/2020 Paul Adepoju IBADAN, Nigeria – Nearly two years after the Assembly of the African Union, adopted a milestone treaty establishing an African Medicines Agency (AMA) that could provide a more unified approach to regulatory approval of new medicines and vaccines, the AMA treaty is yet to enter into force – because it has not been ratified by […] Continue reading -> The Indian/South African Proposal For a WTO Waiver On IP For COVID-19 Related Health Products – What It Means? 14/10/2020 Ellen 't Hoen A sweeping proposal by India and South Africa to suspend the protection of intellectual property (IP) related to COVID-19 health products is set to come before the The World Trade Organization’s TRIPS Council this week. The closed door discussion lays the groundwork for what could prove to be the most significant public debate over […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Ratification of Africa Medicines Agency Treaty Inches Forward – Africa CDC Head Calls It ‘Much-Needed’ 16/10/2020 Paul Adepoju IBADAN, Nigeria – Nearly two years after the Assembly of the African Union, adopted a milestone treaty establishing an African Medicines Agency (AMA) that could provide a more unified approach to regulatory approval of new medicines and vaccines, the AMA treaty is yet to enter into force – because it has not been ratified by […] Continue reading -> The Indian/South African Proposal For a WTO Waiver On IP For COVID-19 Related Health Products – What It Means? 14/10/2020 Ellen 't Hoen A sweeping proposal by India and South Africa to suspend the protection of intellectual property (IP) related to COVID-19 health products is set to come before the The World Trade Organization’s TRIPS Council this week. The closed door discussion lays the groundwork for what could prove to be the most significant public debate over […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
The Indian/South African Proposal For a WTO Waiver On IP For COVID-19 Related Health Products – What It Means? 14/10/2020 Ellen 't Hoen A sweeping proposal by India and South Africa to suspend the protection of intellectual property (IP) related to COVID-19 health products is set to come before the The World Trade Organization’s TRIPS Council this week. The closed door discussion lays the groundwork for what could prove to be the most significant public debate over […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts