The Global Clamour for Ending Vaccine Inequalities Must Go Beyond Just the IP Issue
The COVID-19 crisis has made it increasingly clear that the corporate-led world neither values human life nor the challenges that we face.
A citizen receives a dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 21, 2021. Photo: REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes/File Photo
World11/May/2021
Bowing to pressure from fellow Democrats and amidst rising global clamour for sharing resources, technology and perhaps most importantly, the much-needed technical know-how with the developing world to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, the US President Joe Biden finally agreed to support patent waiver for vaccines at the World Trade Organisation (WTO).