Expanding local production is essential for pandemic preparedness. It requires, however, transfer of technology.
Madam co-chairs, delegates,
This very week, from 7 to 9 April the 3rd World Local Production Forum is taking place in Abu Dhabi. Actions towards...
Cancer Drug Pricing on the World Health Organization’s Executive Board Agenda
On Thursday 24 January, the World Health Organization’s 144th Executive Board meeting will kick off in Geneva. One of the agenda items is access...
UN “Pact for the Future” intellectual property actions need revision to ensure innovation and...
UPDATE: From 22-23 September 2024, the Summit of the Future took place and adopted the Pact for the Future. The intellectual property paragraph of...
It is not too late to solve the know-how problem in the WHO Pandemic...
Introduction
One of the most important Intellectual Property (IP) problems which the Pandemic Accord negotiators need to solve is now in danger of being completely...
Will Europe block the Pandemic Agreement because of one word?
This commentary originally appeared in the Brussels Times, and is available here.
The Pandemic Agreement negotiations began in December of 2021. Sufficiently motivated by the...
Ensuring that intellectual property rights aren’t a barrier to scaling-up: the remarkable example of...
This week various international bodies are tackling different challenges in meeting the urgent problem of scaling-up manufacture of and access to vaccines for Covid-19....
Strong call for transparency on medicine prices, cost of R&D at WHO Fair Pricing...
“Medical innovation has little social value if most people cannot access its benefits…. this is a global human rights issue,” said Mariângela Simão, Assistant...
Drug Price Transparency Calls Move from South Africa to World Health Assembly
by Katrina Perehudoff and Jennifer Sellin
Over 30 states and 40 business and civil society groups debated strategies for affordable and sustainable medicines prices at...
TRIPS, technology transfer and access to pandemic countermeasures: What the WHO Pandemic Treaty must...
The scrambling for access to Covid-19 vaccines by developing countries has reignited the debate on the WTO Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS)...
The new IP strategy of war-torn Ukraine should prioritise public health and national security
Russia’s full-scale assault on Ukraine continues for the third year. The Russian occupation forces have already killed tens of thousands of civilians, including children. They have...