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Why protesters are rallying outside AstraZeneca's Cambridge headquarters The Cambridge pharmaceutical company has refused to share its vaccine technology with the world Updated A vial of the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine. (Image: PA) Sign up to our newsletter for daily updates and breaking newsInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign up here! When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with ourPrivacy Notice. Thank you for subscribingWe have more newslettersShow meSee ourp...

CambridgeLive reports that there are around 80 protestors at the headquarters. Nick Dearden, director of Global Justice Now, said: “Scientists at Oxford University, a publicly-funded institution, developed this lifesaving vaccine through a research and development process that was 97 per cent publicly funded. “The resulting vaccine should have been openly accessible to everyone, but AstraZeneca swooped in and privatised it. “The UK is reaping the benefits of the highly effective vaccines that are now available, but people in low and middle-income countries are still dying daily...

Jayati Ghosh The decision by Joe Biden’s administration to stop opposing a proposed Covid-19 waiver of certain intellectual-property rights under World Trade Organization rules is a welcome move. The United States trade representative, Katherine Tai, acknowledges that ‘the extraordinary circumstances of the Covid-19 pandemic call for extraordinary measures’. While affirming that it ‘believes strongly in intellectual property protections’, the Biden administration ‘in service of ending this pandemic, supports the waiver of those protections for Covid-19 vaccines’. Already, the US...

UK called to support proposal to waive patent protection for COVID-19 vaccines The US and World Trade Organization have already expressed support for the initiative A group of over 400 experts have called the UK to back a proposal first put forward by India and South Africa for a temporary waiver on COVID-19 vaccine patents. Intellectual property protections ensure that the developers of vaccines are financially rewarded; removing them would help with boosting supply to poorer countries. The open letter to Boris Johnson was organised by Global Justice Now, StopAIDS, and Just Treatment, Sky Ne...

Protesters are to gather outside AstraZeneca’s Cambridge headquarters to demand the pharmaceutical firm shares its Covid-19 vaccine technology. The demonstration, organised by Global Justice Now, is calling for the British-Swedish company to openly licence its jab and commit to sharing the technology with the World Health Organisation (WHO). Protests are also planned at the firm’s Macclesfield site and at the University of Oxford, which worked with AstraZeneca to develop the vaccine. Global Justice Now said the action, which coincides with AstraZeneca’s annual general meeting on Tuesday...