8 results for "TRIPS waiver"
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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
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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Hundreds of Prominent US Civil Society Organizations Call on Pres. Biden to Stop Blocking COVID-19 WTO Waiver to Boost Vaccines, Treatments Worldwide
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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Biden Can’t Correct Vaccine Apartheid on Big Pharma’s Terms
Rachael Silverman’s op-ed, Waiving vaccine patents won’t help inoculate poorer nations acknowledges the appeal of overriding COVID-19 vaccine companies’ intellectual property rights in order to expand supply, but then trashes that option arguing that the best solution to overcoming gross vac...
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As COVAX Falls Short, Biden Administration Continues to Block Efforts to Scale-Up Global COVID-19 Vaccine Supply
As COVAX Falls Short, Biden Administration Continues to Block Efforts to Scale-up Global COVID-19 Vaccine Supply Biden Administration Must Break from Failed Trump Policies and Drop Opposition to South Africa-led Request to Expand Global Access to Vaccines As global access to COVID-19 v...
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“People Over Profit” Rallies Push Pharmaceutical Companies to Commit to Equitable Global Vaccine Distribution
Activists gathered across U.S. calling for lower-income countries ravaged by COVID-19 to get immediate access to lifesaving vaccines NEW YORK, N.Y. –– Today, activists gathered at rallies in New York City, Boston, Chicago, Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia as part of a day of action c...
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South Africa and India’s Proposal to Waive Recognition and Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights for COVID-19 Medical Technologies Deserves Universal Support, But Countries Also Have to Take Domestic Measures
Rapid Approval of the Waiver is Imperative On October 2, India and South Africa petitioned the World Trade Organization (WTO) to allow all WTO members to bypass granting or enforcement of patents, trade secrets, industrial designs, and copyrights on COVID-19-related drugs, vaccines, diagnos...
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Media Coverage
Selected 2017 Media Exhibit A for Republican Obamacare repeal challenge: People with HIV | Reuters | January 5, 2017 “A lot of what the ACA did that is kind of below the radar is incredibly important to people living with HIV,” said Matthew Kavanagh, a policy analyst at Health Glo...
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The U.S. Should Stop Blocking Uganda’s Access to Affordable Medicines
SEATINI UGANDA • HEALTH GAP • CEHURD • HEPS UGANDA • CHAIN Despite US Opposition, Uganda and all Least Developed Countries Seek Exemption on Implementing Monopoly Rights for Drug Companies in Order to Cut Drug Prices and Save Lives (Kampala) – Civil society today harshly criticized th...