If mRNA technology could be shared with the listed companies, āwe could vaccinate the world in as close to six months from nowā
A public-health bill in Brazil points the way to a promising bottom-up solution.
More than a dozen civil society groups in India have written an open urging Johnson & Johnson to cancel export of Indian-made COVID-19 vaccine doses to rich countries and instead focus on distributing them in the Global South
U.S. Backs Waiving COVID Vaccine Patent Rights After Months of Blocking Talks
We look at the urgent push to ensure equal access to COVID-19 vaccines for all nations, rich and poor, and growing calls for Big Pharma to waive their patent rights, as COVID-19 cases soar
Interview on Intellectual Property Laws around Drugs and Vaccines
Millions of us are basically going to have to wait for a vaccine, putting global immunity, as well as regional immunity, particularly in Africa, at severe riskā
Our only access to theĀ one existing treatment for Covid-19 will be entirely dependent on the compassion of a giant multinational pharmaceutical corporationĀ that has shown no sign it has any
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