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24 results for "TRIPS waiver"

  • Statement from Asia Russell, Health GAP Executive Director, on the Failure of the WTO’s MC12 to Deliver a TRIPS Waiver for COVID-19 Vaccines, Treatments, and Tests
    • June 17, 2022
    • Jessica Bassett
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    “The World Trade Organization’s 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12) was a dismal failure for the 85% of people in low-income countries that have not had a single dose of COVID-19 vaccine, for the billions of people worldwide without access to COVID-19 tests or outpatient oral antiviral treatments...

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  • Bad Faith from Big Pharma, Rich Countries and the WTO Poison WTO TRIPS Waiver Negotiations
    • June 14, 2022
    • Brook Baker
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    In October of 2020, foreseeing the deadly consequences of vaccine apartheid, South Africa and India submitted a proposal to the WTO that it temporarily waive intellectual property protections enshrined in the WTO TRIPS Agreement for COVID-19 health technologies in order to support expanded producti...

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  • The Quad TRIPS Waiver Text is not a Compromise; It is an Abomination
    • March 16, 2022
    • Brook Baker
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    Every news report that says the leaked Quad text is a promising compromise is wrong. Not nearly enough attention is being paid to the fact that this text does not require or incentivize technology transfer (access to trade secret protected data, info, manufacturing know-how, quality control protoco...

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  • Debunking Pharma’s Talking Points on the TRIPS Waiver
    • May 13, 2021
    • Brook Baker
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    Opponents of the WTO TRIPS waiver proposal, especially Big Pharma, are trotting out a stale set of talking points to oppose the waiver, each of which is easily rebutted:     IP is not a barrier:  If this were true, why does industry simultaneously argue that IP is essential ...

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  • Securing the TRIPS Waiver the World Needs: What Comes Next?
    • May 13, 2021
    • Brook Baker
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    The confetti is still flying after the Biden administration’s climbdown from obstructing text-based discussions at the World Trade Organization (WTO). The U.S. government now supports allowing countries to temporarily waive enforcement of intellectual property (IP) rights on at least some COVID-1...

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  • US support for TRIPS Waiver – activists force a great step forward but a steep climb still lies ahead
    • May 6, 2021
    • Jessica Bassett
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  • Biden’s USTR Must Stop Obstructing Global Access to COVID-19 Vaccines by Supporting the TRIPS Waiver Proposal Led by South Africa and India
    • February 24, 2021
    • Jessica Bassett
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    On the same day as a meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Council on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS Council) in Geneva, where the Biden administration was explicitly opposing a proposal from South Africa and India, with support of the majority of the WTO’s me...

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  • The European Union, Led by Germany’s Chancellor Merkel, Chokes Off Progress on Intellectual Property Waiver at the WTO, Blocking Vaccine Access in Sub-Saharan African and Across Global South While Delta Variant Rages
    • July 6, 2021
    • Brook Baker
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    President Biden’s Bystander Role Aids and Abets this Unconscionable Obstruction The European Union (EU), UK, Switzerland, along with a coterie of other fence-sitting nations, including the US, are blocking meaningful progress on a revised waiver proposal at the World Trade Organization (WTO) t...

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  • Disinformation, Diversion, and Delay: The Real Text of the European Union’s Communication to the WTO TRIPS Council – Urgent Trade Policy Responses to the COVID-19 Crisis
    • June 7, 2021
    • Brook Baker
    • No Comments

    If the European Union’s Communication to the TRIPS Council – Urgent Policy Responses to the COVID-19 Crisis has no real substance, then it is fair to conclude that its true purpose is disinformation, diversion, and delay. The Communication purports to address clarifications needed to make exist...

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  • Hundreds of Prominent US Civil Society Organizations Call on Pres. Biden to Stop Blocking COVID-19 WTO Waiver to Boost Vaccines, Treatments Worldwide
    • February 26, 2021
    • Jessica Bassett
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    MSF, Oxfam, Partners In Health, Human Rights Watch, Public Citizen, MoveOn, Indivisible, Unions, Faith Groups, Citizens Trade Campaign, Health GAP, and More Urge U.S. Support for Waiver at March 1-2 WTO General Council WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. consumer, faith, health, labor, human rights, developme...

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