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India s proposal at WTO for TRIPS waiver gets support from 57 nations, says Piyush Goyal
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Pressure mounts on WTO to consider India s proposed IPR waiver on COVID vaccines; LDC, EU lawmakers voice support
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I am sure global pharma industry will support India s WTO proposal: Goyal
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India-South Africa IPR waiver proposal gets support of about 90 WTO members
February 24, 2021
TRIPS council unlikely to suspend discussion but ask General Council for more time India and South Africa’s proposal for temporary waiver of intellectual property rights provisions during the Covid-19 period has now got the support of majority of WTO members, as evident at the recent TRIPS Council meeting. This has ensured that the proposal will not be set aside and that more efforts are made to move towards a consensus on the matter.
“There are about 90 members now supporting the India-South Africa TRIPS (Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) waiver proposal. There are 57 co-sponsors, and the proposal is supported from the floor by several delegations including Jamaica on behalf of the ACP Group (African, Caribbean and Pacific Group - 62 members), Afghanistan, Argentina, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Honduras, Cuba, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Indonesia, Tunisia,
A woman gets the coronavirus vaccine, at a vaccination centre in Westfield Stratford City shopping centre, amid the outbreak of COVID-19, in London, UK [File: Henry Nicholls/Reuters]
The global COVID-19 vaccine roll-out is creating a “vaccine apartheid”. As of February 24, approximately 216 million people have been vaccinated against COVID-19 globally. Only 8.4 percent of these are in low and lower-middle-income countries, which are home to nearly half of the world’s population.
If this trend continues, young and healthy individuals in wealthy countries will be vaccinated while older and vulnerable people in poorer countries continue to die, needlessly.
Wealthy countries have focused almost exclusively on securing vaccines for their own populations instead of investing in cooperative initiatives – such as the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) (and its vaccine pillar COVAX) – that would fairly distribute vaccines to high-risk people in every country across the globe. In the