FILE - In this July 30, 2020 file photo, Kai Hu, a research associate transfers medium to cells, in the laboratory at Imperial College in London. Imperial College is working on the development of a COVID-19 vaccine. South Africa and India on Friday Oct.
The countries argue, in a joint submission to the Council for Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights dated Friday, that without a rapid waiver of some existing safeguards for intellectual property rights, some countries — particularly developing ones that have been “disproportionately impacted” — would find it hard to access vaccines or medicines quickly.that a COVID-19 vaccine could be hoarded by rich countries in a race to inoculate their populations first.
South Africa and India are seeking waivers to rules that relate to copyright, industrial designs, patents and the protection of undisclosed information or trade secrets, and they propose that the waiver be in place “until widespread vaccination is in place globally” and most of the world has developed immunity to the coronavirus.
India’s government and a spokeswoman for South Africa’s health ministry did not immediately respond to requests for comment. South Africa has been outspoken in the past about access to treatments, notably affordable drugs for HIV.
This! Like why isn't all health science data public knowledge?!
1/ India ignored all the HIV intellectual property protocols also. What a sad country that relies solely on others intellectual effort. It is not Indians are a stupid race. The country trains tens of thousands of brilliant doctors, nurses and scientists. But they are paid...
India doesn’t care about IP anyway. It breaches others’ IP rights all the time, particularly in pharmacy.
POTUS in a shameless act of cowardice jumped the line and got both Remdesivir, for critical cases, and mono clonal antibody treatment, experimental, emergency compassionate use case. He had mild symptoms at best. Now, he will feel bulletproof to covid, living walking god king.
horrible
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