A global effort is underway to discover a vaccine for COVID-19, however so far there is no guarantee that it will be made available or inexpensive around the globe.
Bottom line:
- NGOs desire mandatory steps that would allow nations to make vaccines at a low expense
- They might even be manufactured without the permission of the IP owner
- Global assistance for such relocations might dissuade pharmaceutical business from legal obstacles
There is a push for federal governments and pharmaceutical business to pool copyright (IP) to allow extensive, low-cost manufacturing of any vaccine that is established.
The concern is on the agenda at next week’s virtual conference of the World Health Assembly (WHA), the governing body of the World Health Company (WHO).
The European Union has a draft resolution for voluntary pooling, but popular internati