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DER SPIEGEL Suche öffnen A Dangerous Divide The Growing Debate over the Suspension of Vaccine Patents The U.S. no longer want to enforce patent protection for COVID-19 vaccines, but critics argue that this will do little to improve the lack of access in the developing world. Some are calling for much more ambitious solutions. Link kopieren During the more than three decades Brazilian Senator Paulo Paim has been a member of parliament, he has always been a voice for people who look up at the world from below. Paim has introduced laws aimed at establishing a minimum wage and at ensuring equali...

Trade Representative Katherine Tai made the announcement. United States President Joseph Biden has made it clear that after weighing all the pros and cons he was in favor of waiving intellectual property rights on anticovid-19 vaccine patents so that they can be produced faster and the world can finally overcome the current pandemic. Trade Representative Katherine Tai made the announcement. “This is a global health crisis, and the extraordinary circumstances of the covid-19 pandemic call for extraordinary measures,” she said in a statement. “The administration believes ...

US Noncommittal on Vaccine Patents Waiver  May 06, 2021 A health worker inoculates a man with the Covid-19 coronavirus vaccine on the outskirts of Kathmandu on March 7, 2021. (Photo by Prakash MATHEMA / AFP) Share share Print Amid a surge of COVID-19 cases in India and other parts of the world, the United States remains noncommittal on an October 2020 proposal by India and South Africa to waive certain provisions of the World Trade Organization's Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS). The proposal would loosen patent restrictions so that countries can ma...

On Wednesday the US government announced its support for a waiver of provisions of the World Trade Organisation’s Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (commonly known as TRIPS) regarding intellectual property on Covid-19 vaccines. “This is a global health crisis and the extraordinary circumstances of the global Covid-19 pandemic call for extraordinary measures. The Administration believes strongly in intellectual property protections, but in the service of ending this pandemic, supports the waiver of those protections for Covid-19 vaccines.”  This is in response ...

India’s COVID-19 crisis has revived a longstanding debate about whether foreign governments should come to the aid of countries facing major economi