In a recent article, CUTS International, a global public policy research and advocacy group, maintains that the cornerstone of an equitable...

The Doha Declaration on TRIPS and public health clarified pre-existing flexibilities in the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellect...

While there is much to recommend inactivated whole-virus vaccines, including easy storage, further advances in vaccines and cures would be ...

India must offer a Plan B, a vaccine partnership, in which India shares know-how to manufacture indigenously developed and approved vaccine...

The USA has also redirected one of its own orders of critical vaccine manufacturing supplies, which will allow India to make over 20 millio...

The focus of the revised proposal – also backed by South Africa – will continue to be ensuring “equitable, affordable and timely access” fo...

There would be two practical advantages for vaccine production in India, if the waiver comes through at the World Trade Organization.

The agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights or TRIPS came into effect in January 1995. It is a multilateral agre...

Increasing vaccine supplies has to address increasing the supplies of vaccine ingredients. The government must fund these projects, under i...

New Delhi also called for greater support to its proposal along with South Africa at the World Trade Organization to waive the implementati...

In his keynote address, P. Harish, India’s BRICS Sous Sherpa and Additional Secretary (ER), Ministry of External Affairs, said the multilat...

India, which has been at the forefront of the global fight against COVID-19, told the UN General Assembly last month that vaccine inequity ...

The public interest in funding Covid-19 vaccines is not difficult to identify. Vaccinating a sufficient proportion of the population would ...

Increasing global vaccine supplies calls for global coordination. Vaccine know-how must be made available without any intellectual property...

The more the virus continues to multiply in the world, the greater the likelihood of mutations that produce virulent strains against which ...

It is in everyone’s interest — including the residents of the world’s poorest countries, who depend upon innovation in the world’s richest ...

Citing reports of IPRs hindering timely provisioning of affordable medical products to the patients, they highlighted that certain members ...