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The AIDS fight offers a COVID vaccine patent pathway Updated: Updated: May 22, 2021 07:30 IST There are recognised ways to overcome the patents hurdle, ensuring social justice and boosting the COVID-19 battle Share Article AAA There are recognised ways to overcome the patents hurdle, ensuring social justice and boosting the COVID-19 battle In order to achieve global herd immunity and prevent new strains of COVID-19 from emerging, possibly for years to come, vaccines need to be affordable and available in massive quantities throughout the globe. This can happen through patent owners volunta...

After months of shameful right-wing stalling and delaying tactics, the European Parliament approved a resolution to tackle the AIDS epidemic which includes a Left demand for waiving intellectual property rights on Covid-19 vaccines. The proposal championed by Left MEPs also demands the waiving of intellectual property rights for equipment and other treatments, urging pharmaceutical companies to share their knowledge and data through the World Health Organization COVID-19 Technology Access Pool (C-TAP). “After months of intense campaigning, the Left group in the European Parliament has won a...

Africa should tackle failures in technology sharing Universities in Africa must be more vocal about the failures of higher education institutions in the Global North to challenge the status quo of innovation- and technology-sharing that is denying millions access to life-saving treatments, Sarai Keestra, a research coordinator of the Universities Allied for Essential Medicines in the United Kingdom has told University World News. In an e-mail exchange following a commentary she wrote in BMJ Global Health she said: “African universities can hold universities in the Global North to account ...

BY FEMI FALANA The most telling lesson of the coronavirus pandemic is that “no one is safe until everyone is safe.” It is an indisputable proof of our biological connectedness which is even more consequential for life and livelihood than the digital connectivity that is the buzz word of the millennials. As it happens in any pandemic, the coronavirus does not respect geo-political boundaries; neither is it restricted by socio-economic and cultural divides. The virus infects the poor and the rich alike. It overwhelms developed countries and underdeveloped countries despite the sophisticatio...

By Parsa Erfani, Lawrence O. Gostin, and Vanessa Kerry May 19, 2021Reprints CRISTINA QUICLER/AFP via Getty Images The Biden administration’s announcement to support an intellectual property (IP) waiver for Covid-19 vaccines was a monumental step toward improving the access to them in low- and middle-income countries. But without further action, it will be little more than a symbol. The waiver allows companies to produce Covid-19 vaccines without fear of being sued by the entity that holds the IP for the technology. It had been backed by more than 100 countries and by 110 members of the U....