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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Statement from Brook Baker, Senior Policy Analyst, Health GAP, regarding the COVID-19 vaccine agreement announced today between Pfizer, BioNTech, and Biovac: “This is a far cry from actual technology transfer to allow independent manufacture of mRNA vaccines and therapeutics in African countries...
The complications and limitations of compulsory-license-reliant measures to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic need to be better explained. The European Union and several other countries espousing reliance on TRIPS-compliant compulsory licenses to overcome patent barriers have opposed...
Free the Vaccine Activists Remember Those Around the World Lost to COVID-19, and Called for Rich Nations to #EndVaccineApartheid via WTO TRIPS Waiver (New York, NY) — Dozens of New York activists gathered this evening outside Pfizer World Headquarters to condemn the company’s pandemic p...
More than 170 former heads of state and government and Nobel laureates, including former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Gordon Brown, former President of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos, former President of Liberia Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, former President of France François Hollande and Nobel Laur...
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...