Rich countries refuse to waive their intellectual property rights on COVID-19 vaccines

This week, World Trade Organisation will meet to urgently discuss calls for vaccine makers to waive their intellectual property rights, as India’s COVID-19 numbers continue to surge out of control.

The WTO is coming under increased pressure from both India and South Africa to greenlight the waiver to help achieve global vaccine equity – but the world’s rich countries oppose the move.

Guest: Matthew Kavanaugh, director of the Global Health Policy and Politics Initiative at Georgetown University’s O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law

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