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As a key player on the vaccine scene, India should assert its TRIPS waiver position

. Since 2020, South Africa has become the world’s champion in the call for equitable access to Covid-19 vaccines. On multilateral platforms, the government has been clear in its call for equitable and universal access to Covid-19 medical products and treatments — not only for South Africa, but for the rest of the continent too. The government has, at least in its rhetoric at high-level political gatherings, spoken out against vaccine nationalism and challenged the historically dominant powe...

The head of the World Health Organization warned that global inequalities in vaccination could come back to haunt us.

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News of the blockage of a shipment of 250,000 COVID-19 vaccines from Europe to Australia has caused concern and outrage. But to avoid these types of shortfalls in future, it's important to address the underlying problems, writes Deborah Gleeson.

Italy's decision to block export of AstraZeneca vaccines to Australia will likely not impact our vaccine roll-out. But vaccine scarcity is a looming problem in other parts of the world.

Calls intensify for Big Pharma to break monopolies on Covid-19 vaccines On February 25, Ivory Coast became the second country after Ghana to receive vaccines acquired through the UN-backed COVAX initiative with a delivery of 504,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine made by the Serum Institute of India. Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Pressure is mounting on countries to suspend intellectual property rules to help vaccines reach more people, especially in poorer countri...

Tracking Actions to Improve Global Access The COVID-19 pandemic doesn’t end with a vaccine. It ends when everyone can get it. The evidence couldn’t be more clear: as long the virus remains unchecked anywhere on the planet, it will continue to mutate, breach borders, and wreak havoc on the global economy. The first version of the Vaccine Access Test – launched in September 2020 – measured how well countries were supporting the development of COVID-19 vaccines and setting the stage for eq...

COVID-19 technology access pool Commitments to share knowledge, intellectual property and data Since May 2020, the WHO COVID-19 Technology Access Pool (C-TAP), launched by WHO in partnership with the Government of Costa Rica and 40 Member State co-sponsors with the Solidarity Call to Action, has called to action the global community to voluntarily share knowledge, intellectual property and data necessary for COVID-19. C-TAP is intended to provide a means to accelerate the development of produc...

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