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...
As reported today, Dr. Tedros is now on record emphasizing that IP rights “should not be undermined“ and supporting their “measured use.” (see Geneva Health Files reporting and statement below). This is a breath-takingly bad reversal of WHO DG Tedros’ previous advocacy on the need to...
Twenty months ago, India and South Africa proposed a comprehensive but temporary waiver of enforcement of WTO intellectual property monopolies on COVID-19 vaccines, medicines, diagnostics, and other medical supplies that would have triggered a faster, more affordable, and more equitable COVID respo...
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...
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...
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...
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...