Malaysia must support Covid-19 patent waiver | The Malaysian Insight
Copy URL THE undersigned organisations and patient advocacy groups strongly call on the Malaysian government to immediately support the temporary suspension of intellectual property rights enforcement as an urgent Covid-19 response. A waiver of the World Trade Organisation’s agreement on intellectual property rights (the TRIPS agreement) would free up technologies and allow more manufacturers, including in developing countries, to urgently and quickly ramp up production of vaccines, medicines to treat Covid-19, diagnostics, ventilators and other needed medical products. We welcome the...