Analysis: EU and US pharma giants’ intellectual property rights stop poorer countries accessing vital medication – despite WTO claims of progress
They said the EU had launched a “belligerent blockade of any actual waiver of intellectual property barriers” and criticised the US for its “insistence that the IP waiver it supports be limited to vaccines”. The EU and US have also required countries to seek authorisation on a product-by-product basis, “meaning no simplified pathway for follow-on manufacturers to produce and enter the market”, they wrote.
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