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THREAD: During this pandemic, treatment providers and governments have faced shortages of #COVID19 drugs, test reagents, masks, and ventilator valves caused by corporations controlling supply using patents, trade secrets or other IP.

We compiled examples of such shortages

Example 1- Impact of intellectual property barriers on #COVID19 drugs.

#COVIDshortages
#WhyWeNeedIPWaiver

Example 2- Impact of intellectual property barriers on future #COVID19 #vaccines.

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#WhyWeNeedIPWaiver

Example 3- Impact of intellectual property barriers on #COVID19 tests.

#COVIDshortages
#WhyWeNeedIPWaiver

Example 4 - Impact of intellectual property barriers on #COVID19 ventilator valves.

#COVIDshortages
#WhyWeNeedIPWaiver

Example 5 - Impact of intellectual property barriers on #COVID19 N95 respirators (masks).

#COVIDshortages
#WhyWeNeedIPWaiver

Example 6- Impact of intellectual property barriers on #COVID19 testing kit reagents.

#COVIDshortages
#WhyWeNeedIPWaiver

If the waiver proposal by

is approved by @WTO, it will support uninterrupted scale-up of production and supply of medical tools to collectively address the global challenge facing all countries.

Read more

#WhyWeNeedIPWaiver https://bit.ly/3nLAzCC

India and South Africa proposal for WTO waiver from IP protections for COVID-19-related medical...

In today’s global emergency, MSF calls on all WTO members to support this waiver request. As an automatic and expedited solution to address patents and other IP barriers at the international level,...

https://bit.ly/3nLAzCC

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