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COVID Vaccines: Where Does India Truly Stand on the TRIPS Waiver? -Priti Patnaik

-TheWire Science

* The Indian government has consistently discouraged compulsory licenses on generic drugs.
 
* One of the big questions the India government has not answered is why it isn’t using pharma PSUs to produce drugs and vaccines.

* Not one member of Indian industry is willing to stand up and fight for compulsory licenses, and for patients, says lawyer Murali Neelakantan.

India has played a crucial role in supporting South Africa, as a lead co-sponsor in bringing the TRIPS waiver proposal to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in October 2020. In the months since, more than 60 other WTO members have formally supported the proposal – a bold initiative that seeks to temporarily suspend a range of intellectual property protections in order to decisively respond to the pandemic by seeking to unblock production shortages for critical COVID-19 medical products.

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