Should COVID-19 vaccines be exempt from intellectual property rights? jamaicaobserver.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from jamaicaobserver.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Covid-19 vaccines: India’s proposed WTO patent waiver faces stiff opposition from US, EU
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Hugo Miller,
, Bloomberg
The WTO meeting of all 164 member states in Geneva last week ended without consensus, leaving poorer countries who sponsored the proposal frustrated and legal protections for vaccines intact
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Covid-19 vaccines look set to protect millions of citizens of the world’s richest countries in the coming months. But inoculating the rest of the planet’s population may mean finding a way around an impasse over intellectual property.
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New alliance seeks to tackle the plague of falsified medical products
COVID-19 has spawned a stark rise in the global circulation of fake medical products relating to the pandemic, experts warn as they launch an alliance aimed at tackling the scourge.
The Fight the Fakes (FTF) Alliance, a non-profit association comprising 16 organizations from manufacturers to wholesalers, and research and patient groups, aims to raise the profile of an issue it views as long under-addressed globally, with a disproportionate impact on low- and middle-income countries.
One in 10 medical products in developing countries is either substandard or falsified, according to World Health Organization (WHO) figures from 2017. And some research suggests the prevalence of fake medicines can be as high as 70 per cent in some African countries.
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