Suspending vaccine patents will not be enough, groups say
Médecins Sans Frontières says US support for the waiver is narrow, focusing only on preventive Covid-19 vaccines
09 May 2021 - 18:09
The US government’s decision to support a temporary waiver on intellectual property rights for Covid-19 vaccines is a step in the right direction but will not be enough to curb the health crisis, an international civil society group warned at the weekend.
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), a medical humanitarian organisation, said the temporary waiver referred to preventive Covid-19 vaccines only, yet developing countries including SA and India have been calling for the exclusion to cover a host of medical tools needed to tackle Covid-19, including diagnostics [such as laboratory test kits] and treatments...
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