{"id":148912,"date":"2021-11-25T20:59:27","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T15:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=148912"},"modified":"2021-11-25T20:59:27","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T15:29:27","slug":"the-pandemic-is-an-opportunity-to-correct-some-historical-wrongs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-pandemic-is-an-opportunity-to-correct-some-historical-wrongs\/","title":{"rendered":"The pandemic is an opportunity to correct some historical wrongs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

News: <\/strong>In the upcoming 12th ministerial conference of WTO<\/a>, access to vaccine and vaccine viva will be the most contentious issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read more: Issues Associated with IPR Waiver to Covid Vaccine<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
What has been India\u2019s contribution towards Vaccine equity?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

India gifted two lakh doses of COVID-19 vaccine for UN peacekeepers. India provided critical medicines, diagnostic kits, ventilators to more than 150 countries.<\/p>\n

India and South Africa also moved a motion at the WTO. In that motion, they asked the WTO Council on TRIPS to provide a waiver of Intellectual Property Rights for vaccine production. This would enable all the countries to domestically manufacturer vaccines. The proposal now has the backing of more than a hundred countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Must Read<\/strong>: Intellectual Property Rights(IPR) and Universal Vaccination \u2013 Explained, Pointwise<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Due to India\u2019s pressure, global supply lines and raw materials have remained open. India has contributed to the COVAX initiative as well.<\/p>\n

India\u2019s vaccine Maitri programme<\/strong><\/a>, with the premise that no one is safe until everyone is safe, provided vaccines to many developing and least developed countries. India\u00a0could supply more than 65 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to about a hundred countries.<\/p>\n

Further, India is one of the initiators of the “Political Declaration on Equitable Global Access<\/strong>\u00a0to Covid 19 vaccines”<\/strong>. The declaration treats vaccines as a global public good (GOPG). <\/strong>At present, it has the support of more than 180 UN member states.<\/p>\n

What should be the way forward?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is time for the global community to work collectively and urgently to address the COVID-19 crisis. Implementation of TRIPS was in favour of developing and least developed countries can be a good start in this direction.<\/p>\n

Source<\/strong>: This post is based on the article “The pandemic is an opportunity to correct some historical wrongs” <\/strong>published in the PIB <\/strong>on 24th November 2021.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

News: In the upcoming 12th ministerial conference of WTO, access to vaccine and vaccine viva will be the most contentious issue. Read more: Issues Associated with IPR Waiver to Covid Vaccine What has been India\u2019s contribution towards Vaccine equity? India gifted two lakh doses of COVID-19 vaccine for UN peacekeepers. India provided critical medicines, diagnostic… Continue reading The pandemic is an opportunity to correct some historical wrongs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5480,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212],"class_list":["post-148912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704748278},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148912","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\/5480"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}