20 results for "TRIPS waiver"
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Debunking Pharma’s Talking Points on the TRIPS Waiver
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?
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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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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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
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
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
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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On Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla’s Birthday, Medical Students and Activists from Health GAP, Rise and Resist, CPD Action and More Protest at His Home to Demand Equitable Global Access to COVID-19 Vaccines
Scarsdale, NY, October 21, 2021 (Globe Newswire) – On Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla’s birthday, medical students and activists held a mock celebration by placing a faux “Pfizer graveyard” outside Bourla’s home to denounce his role in blocking access to life-saving COVID-19 vaccines for billions...
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Biggest Roadblock to Biden-Convened COVID-19 Summit’s Success: Fealty to Moderna and Pfizer
Biden can’t achieve more ambitious targets with the same failing strategyRefusing to fight for the TRIPS waiver and to compel COVID-19 vaccine technology transfer is resulting in preventable deaths and prolonging the pandemic Ahead of Biden speech at UNGA in NY, on Monday activists will prot...
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Our Shared Struggles for Health Justice
In October 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic had already caused one million deaths. There were highly effective vaccines on the horizon but every sign pointed to the intention of pharmaceutical companies to obstruct equitable global access, with high-income countries aiding and abetting their cartel-like...
