{"id":114444,"date":"2021-06-24T10:43:22","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T05:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=114444"},"modified":"2021-10-22T13:56:47","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T08:26:47","slug":"covid-vaccines-eu-ignores-india-s-africas-patent-waiver-plea-at-wto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/covid-vaccines-eu-ignores-india-s-africas-patent-waiver-plea-at-wto\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19 vaccines: EU ignores India, S Africa\u2019s patent waiver plea at WTO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Synopsis:\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">The European Union has presented a declaration to the World Trade Organization (WTO) that overlooks the goals of India and South Africa&#8217;s combined request for an intellectual property (IP) waiver on Covid-19 pharmaceuticals and vaccines.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Introduction\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Despite the fact that the waiver idea has the support of over 100 countries, the EU has been opposing it for the past eight months.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">What is the issue surrounding the waiver?<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"37\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"59\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Firstly, if adopted, the waiver will give countries critical policy flexibility<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0to eliminate IP hurdles, allowing them to collaborate more in R&amp;D, manufacturing, and scale-up, and thereby improve the availability of Covid medicines and vaccines.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"37\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"60\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Secondly, the EU proclamation is being seen as a diversionary technique<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">, since it asserts its position of implementing relevant policies under the WTO&#8217;s TRIPS (Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) agreement during the pandemic.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"o\" data-font=\"Courier New\" data-listid=\"37\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"18\" data-aria-level=\"2\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">The EU reaffirmed the Doha Declaration on TRIPS and Public Health, urging nations to facilitate the use of compulsory\u00a0licencing.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"37\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"61\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Thirdly, this might delay the progress of reaching an agreement on the waiver<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">. Waiver is important to address the inequalities in\u00a0access to Covid vaccines.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Source:\u00a0<\/span><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/business\/international-business\/covid-vaccines-eu-ignores-india-s-africas-patent-waiver-plea-at-wto\/articleshow\/83760149.cms\"><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Click here<\/span><\/b><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synopsis:\u00a0The European Union has presented a declaration to the World Trade Organization (WTO) that overlooks the goals of India and South Africa&#8217;s combined request for an intellectual property (IP) waiver on Covid-19 pharmaceuticals and vaccines.\u00a0 Introduction\u00a0\u00a0 Despite the fact that the waiver idea has the support of over 100 countries, the EU has been opposing&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/covid-vaccines-eu-ignores-india-s-africas-patent-waiver-plea-at-wto\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Covid-19 vaccines: EU ignores India, S Africa\u2019s patent waiver plea at WTO<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,8043,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-current-affairs-cat","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1702913566},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}