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    3 reasons why we need a Waiver on monopolies of all COVID-19 medical tools
    3 reasons why we need a Waiver on monopolies of all COVID-19 medical tools
    One year ago, and seven months into the COVID-19 pandemic, India and South Africa put forward the TRIPS Waiver proposal: a groundbreaking solution to ...
    Access to medicines
    COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease)
    COVID-19 vaccines
    Following full FDA approval, Pfizer and BioNTech must urgently share COVID-19 vaccine know-how to increase global production and supply
    Following full FDA approval, Pfizer and BioNTech must urgently share COVID-19 vaccine know-how to increase global production and supply
    Sharing mRNA vaccine technology with manufacturers in low- and middle-income countries – including in Africa where seven manufacturers could begin pro...
    Access to medicines
    COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease)
    COVID-19 vaccines
    COVID-19 in Yemen: Fears and rumours - Why patients arrive late to the treatment centres?
    Yemen
    COVID-19 in Yemen: Fears and rumours - Why patients arrive late to the treatment centres?
    One year into the COVID-19 pandemic in Yemen, stigma, disinformation, fear of detention and lack of knowledge on presence of isolation centres continu...
    COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease)
    War and conflict
    COVID-19 hits Yemen again, testing a broken healthcare system
    Yemen
    COVID-19 hits Yemen again, testing a broken healthcare system
    Inside al-Kuwait hospital in Sana’a a chain-link fence separates two worlds. There is the world outside the fence where a strange disease is little ac...
    COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease)
    War and conflict
    COVID-19 monopoly waiver: EU, UK, Switzerland, Norway must stop blocking negotiations on landmark pandemic monopoly waiver
    COVID-19 monopoly waiver: EU, UK, Switzerland, Norway must stop blocking negotiations on landmark pandemic monopoly waiver
    Ahead of the next World Trade Organization (WTO) meeting onthe landmark pandemic monopoly waiver proposal—the ‘TRIPS waiver’—theinternational humanita...
    COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease)
    Access to medicines
    vacc
    India’s COVID-19 crisis shows urgency for countries to back the waiver for vaccine patents
    India
    India’s COVID-19 crisis shows urgency for countries to back the waiver for vaccine patents
    Hong Kong - The second wave of COVID-19 is reaching extremely alarming levels in India. As of 18 May, the total number of active COVID-19 cases in Ind...
    COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease)
    Not only vaccines: Oxygen must be at the heart of the COVID-19 response
    Not only vaccines: Oxygen must be at the heart of the COVID-19 response
    In a briefing paper released today, titled “Gasping For Air”, the international medical humanitarian organisation, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sa...
    COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease)
    COVID-19 vaccines
    US decision to drop IP on COVID-19 vaccines 'monumental'
    US decision to drop IP on COVID-19 vaccines 'monumental'
    Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontierès (MSF) applauds the Biden-Harris Administration’s decision to support waiving intellectual property pr...
    COVID-19 vaccines
    COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease)
    Access to medicines
    Vaccination
    Four questions on India’s second wave of COVID-19
    India
    Four questions on India’s second wave of COVID-19
    The second wave of COVID-19 in India has been devastating, with a catastrophic rise in the numbers of new infections in recent weeks. The country has ...
    COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease)