'If adopted as is, this text, while continuing to privilege Big Pharma monopolies and profits, would continue to deny access to lifesaving Covid-19 vaccines and treatments to millions around the world.' amnestyusa amnesty Oxfam OxfamAmerica MSF_USA
"If adopted as is, this text, while continuing to privilege Big Pharma monopolies and profits, would continue to deny access to lifesaving Covid-19 vaccines and treatments to millions around the world."Top civil society groups on Wednesday denounced a potential deal on Covid-19 vaccine intellectual property rights, calling on the World Trade Organization, the European Union, and U.S. President Joe Biden to reject the proposal.
"Your goal of saving lives worldwide from the ravages of Covid-19 will not be furthered by accepting this text, which would in practice be worse than the status quo with respect to global access to lifesaving vaccines and treatments,"The rights groups say the text of a deal to waive parts of the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights agreement—to the press in mid-March—deviates from India and South Africa's original proposal at the World Trade Organization and would...
"This text is just another rehash of the E.U.'s efforts to thwart the very concept of a waiver, despite support for it by almost all other WTO nations," the U.S. letter."The text restates existing WTO rules that have proved unsuitable for boosting Covid-19 supplies as if they were new, and then imposes burdensome new conditions on nations seeking to use the existing flexibilities.
The groups called on Biden to prioritize U.S. efforts to negotiate and implement an"actual waiver" that boosts Covid-19 vaccine production, treatments, and testing.
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