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Medicines shouldn’t be a luxury Take action!
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Share the Tech

If mRNA vaccine technology from Moderna, BioNTech and Pfizer were shared, manufacturers in low- and middle-income countries could produce vaccines for global pandemic preparedness, as well as diseases of concern such as HIV, TB and malaria.

South African activists protest in support of the WTO TRIPS Waiver Photo by Tadeu Andre
No Patents, No Monopolies in a Pandemic

Help us tell governments blocking the movement to speed up equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines, tests and treatments to put lives over profit.

Els Torreele

We need to redesign our medical R&D to deliver missing medicines for unmet public health needs, not just new or different medicines for already met medical needs. Read my blog on the role of a conducive regulatory framework @Yale_CRIT

07:52 - 21 Feb 2018
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