Pharma Snubs WHO Call To Pool COVID-19 Patents

WHO Says Initiative Aims To Ensure Equitable Access

Almost three dozen countries have shown support for the alternative mechanism put forward by the World Health Organization to ensure that IP issues do not stand in the way of providing access to COVID-19 medicines, vaccines and diagnostics to ‘all of humanity.’

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More than 35 countries have signed up to the COVID-19 Technology Access Pool (C-TAP) initiative after the World Health Organization issued a “Solidarity Call to Action” asking the global community to voluntarily share knowledge, intellectual property and data necessary for developing COVID-19 treatments and vaccines.

While the international pharmaceutical industry has rejected the “one-size-fits all” approach outlined in the C-TAP initiative, there were earlier reports...

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