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    Doctors Without Borders response to license between Pfizer and Medicines Patent Pool for new COVID-19 treatment Paxlovid
    Doctors Without Borders response to license between Pfizer and Medicines Patent Pool for new COVID-19 treatment Paxlovid
    Pfizer recently shared positive interim results for its COVID-19 oral antiviral investigational candidate PF-07321332 in combination with ritonavir (P...
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    Press Release: COVID-19 shows need to boost production of medical diagnostic tools in Asia
    Press Release: COVID-19 shows need to boost production of medical diagnostic tools in Asia
    The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that it is urgent time for a more diverse medical diagnostics market in Asia with sustainable local production to meet...
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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 ...
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    COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease)
    COVID-19 vaccines
    Mass deportations and failed asylum policies leave tens of thousands of migrants stranded and in danger along Mexico’s border cities
    Mexico
    Mass deportations and failed asylum policies leave tens of thousands of migrants stranded and in danger along Mexico’s border cities
    Mexico City, September 8, 2021 – Tens of thousands of migrants are trapped in extremely vulnerable conditions in northern and southern Mexico due to f...
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    Healthcare System in Lebanon Disintegrates
    Lebanon
    Healthcare System in Lebanon Disintegrates
    Dwindling supplies of fuel and medicine mean that Lebanon’s healthcare system is rapidly disintegrating as the country – which has been without a gove...
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    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...
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    COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease)
    COVID-19 vaccines
    Doctors Without Borders calls on Gilead to fulfil its promise: Scale up access to lifesaving drug
    Doctors Without Borders calls on Gilead to fulfil its promise: Scale up access to lifesaving drug
    Access to affordable liposomal amphotericin B (L-AmB) is crucial to ending cryptococcal meningitis deaths by 2030.
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    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)
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    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