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Originally Posted by rostasi
I'm thinking it would've been a good idea to give South Africa (along with India) that TRIPS waiver
when they asked the World Trade Organization for it 14 months ago so they could manufacture
their own vaccines instead of caving in to Big Pharma. The WHO is meeting next week.
I wonder if it'll be brought up yet again (Biden first called for the waivers back in May).
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I doubt the EU would ever agree to signing off their IP to the global south. Africa etc for them is where you extract resources from, not share anything with. Not part of the profit model etc.