Equitable Access to Medicines

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..... Equitable Access to Medicines
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Dated:- 24-3-2021

India and South Africa have submitted a proposal for waiver from certain provisions of the Trade Related aspects of .....

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..... Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement for the prevention, treatment and containment of COVID-19, to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) TRIPS Council on 2nd October 2020. The objective of the .....

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..... proposal is to ensure that the intellectual property rights do not create a hurdle in rapid scaling up of manufacturing capacities throughout the globe to meet the objective of equitable, timely and .....

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..... affordable access for all to vaccines, therapeutics and other goods required to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. After the submission to the TRIPS Council in October 2020, the waiver proposal has now .....

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..... been co-sponsored by 57 WTO members with many members supporting from the floor. The waiver proposal has also received support from the civil society groups and the World Health Organisation. This i .....

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..... nformation was given by the Minister of State in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Shri Hardeep Singh Puri, in a written reply in the Lok Sabha today.
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