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An Essex woman was one of four people arrested during a protest outside the headquarters of pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca’s headquarters. The demonstration was held in Cambridge yesterday to demand the firm share its vaccine technology across the world. A protester, who held a sign which read “human life not profit,” chained himself to a door while others climbed on to the roof of the entryway and unfurled a banner which read “people’s vaccine not profit vaccine”. Supporters played drums during the protest, organised by Global Justice Now, which is calling for the Bri...

Sharing the know-how behind making COVID-19 vaccines is key to scaling up production and addressing emerging variants. A Q&A With Anthony D. So, MD, MPA | MAY 10, 2020 The Biden administration announced it would seek a “TRIPS waiver” of intellectual property protections related to COVID vaccines.  In this Q&A, Anthony D. So, MD, MPA, a professor of the practice in International Health, explains the waiver and what it could mean for COVID-19 vaccines. What’s the TRIPS waiver for COVID vaccines all about? The TRIPS waiver refers to a proposal, advanced by the governments of South Africa ...

Demonstrations are also taking place outside the University of Oxford and the pharmaceutical firm’s Macclesfield site.

Demonstrations are also taking place outside the University of Oxford and the pharmaceutical firm´s Macclesfield site.

Patent Waiver the New Pandemic Normal & India’s Key Role in Emerging Global Consensus News18 1 day ago Oommen C Kurian © Provided by News18 Patent Waiver the New Pandemic Normal & India’s Key Role in Emerging Global Consensus Earlier this year, stark inequities of global vaccine distribution, where limited supplies of COVID vaccine doses are mopped up by richer countries had forced the WHO chief to warn that the world was on the brink of a “catastrophic moral failure”. Lack of access to COVID-19 vaccines is now playing out across the world in terms of daily deaths...