Bill of Health

JANUARY 17, 2023

Two pharmaceutical giants of the pandemic, Moderna and BioNTech, are taking steps for increasing the manufacturing capacity for the COVID-19 vaccine in Africa. Last March, Moderna announced its plan to set up a manufacturing facility in Kenya to produce messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines, including COVID-19 shots.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 6, 2022

Current vaccine and treatment inequity was not inevitable. Early on in the pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) proposed IP owners voluntarily license IP to others to ensure affordable COVID treatments. Existing international and domestic IP rules allow IP owners to voluntarily share their IP rights.

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 12, 2023

By Tara Davis and Nicola Soekoe In January 2021, the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) observed that the world was on the brink of a “catastrophic moral failure” if wealthier nations did not ensure the equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines.

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Bill of Health

JULY 12, 2024

As I previously discussed in October of 2020, Moderna pledged not to enforce its patents against makers of COVID-19 vaccines during the pandemic. Then, in 2022, Moderna sued competing vaccine makers Pfizer and BioNTech. Conclusion The U.K.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

At the end of 2021, Thomas Cueni, the head of an international pharmaceutical trade association, acknowledged that everyone was “ashamed and embarrassed” by the inequity. “We Consider the United States, for example, which made the unprecedented move to leave the World Health Organization (WHO) during the pandemic.

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Health Law Pulse

JANUARY 21, 2022

A little over one week later, we reported that the World Health Organization declared a global health emergency after COVID-19 was detected in eighteen countries, infecting almost 10,000 people and killing more than two hundred.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic hit Africa hard and overwhelmed the capacity to test for and treat the disease, highlighting existing gaps within its national health systems. Health resources are unevenly distributed and often of poor quality. Hesitancy: a convenient scapegoat.

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