"It went very well and here's why I say that. No member rejected the outcome as completely unacceptable," Ambassador Lansana Gberie from Si...

18 months of negotiations have led to Members merely clarifying flexibilities that already exist and making some of these more burdensome t...

The waiver drafted by the United States, European Union, India and South Africa earlier in March would need formal approval from the WTO's ...

As per the original 2020 text of the TRIPs waiver proposal, India and South Africa wanted the right to suspend intellectual property (IP) p...

The forthcoming G20 meeting on October 30-31 in Rome should focus attention on these steps, instead of quietly acquiescing to the EU offer ...

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

The draft document, seen by Reuters, lists commitments of G20 nations and other countries and is to be adopted on Friday at a Global Health...

Opponents of the proposal have argued that the waiver will make no difference to the supply of vaccines. Patent-holders and pharmaceutical ...

European Council chief Charles Michel, attending an EU summit in Portugal, said the bloc was ready to discuss a US offer to suspend patent ...

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

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

"USA supports waiver of IP protections on COVID-19 vaccines. Here is an immediate 2-point agenda for increasing vaccine and medicine availa...

Before Biden's announcement on Wednesday, India and South Africa confirmed their intention to draft a new waiver proposal at a WTO General ...

The head of the EU executive said the bloc's vaccination effort was accelerating, with 30 Europeans inoculated per second, while exporting ...

He added that the White House support for the temporary waiving IP on COVID-19 vaccines "reflects the wisdom and moral leadership of US to ...

The proposed game-changing waiver of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) would enable free flow ...

This statement comes at a time when the race for Covid-19 vaccine is heating up across the world. Though most vaccine makers have received ...