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Ursula von der Leyen, European Commission president.

The Commission has published its first major overhaul to the bloc’s medicines regulations in 20 years.

The G7 group of democracies has promised support for a range of science and technology projects across the world, hoping to win back countries swayed by decades of Chinese infrastructure largesse. At their meeting in Bavaria, G7 leaders said they would help fund everything from vaccine manufacturing in Senegal to solar grids in Angola and modular nuclear reactors in Romania.

The World Trade Organization reached a deal on patents for Covid-19 vaccines, after a deadlock of nearly two years — since India and South Africa submitted a joint proposal to waive intellectual property rights of vaccines worldwide.

The Global Call to Action Against Poverty organised an international discussion on the state of the world's access to health technologies to address the

Trade experts have welcomed a preliminary agreement by four influential World Trade Organization (WTO) members that would allow companies to produce and export Covid-19 vaccines without falling foul of patent laws.  An internal WTO document leaked last week revealed that the EU, India, South Africa and US had agreed to let countries waive intellectual property ...

A group of South African academics and the international NGO Doctors Without Borders have urged member countries in the World Trade Organization to resume negotiations after a leaked document detailing a compromise in waiving patents for Covid-19 vaccines surfaced.

The World Trade Organization chief Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on Wednesday highlighted the "decisive progress made" by South Africa, the EU, the US" on a waiver to the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of of Intellectual Property Rights for the production of Covid-19 vaccines.

The dispute over COVID-19 vaccine patents continues to overshadow the EU’s efforts to broker closer research links with Africa, with campaigners for health equity arguing Brussels is stymying Africa’s attempt to build its own independent manufacturing capacity.

Europe pitches broad health alliance, while ignoring Africa’s call to waive vaccine patents.