Bien public mondial. L’Afrique du Sud et l’Inde contre-attaquent sur l’accès aux #vaccins | L’Humanité
▻https://www.humanite.fr/bien-public-mondial-lafrique-du-sud-et-linde-contre-attaquent-sur-lacces-au
À l’Organisation mondiale du commerce, une résolution des deux pays, examinée ce vendredi, propose de suspendre la propriété intellectuelle par temps de pandémie.
L’#Union_européenne et la #France, en particulier, ont l’opportunité concrète de sortir de leur #duplicité pour choisir la vie avant les profits de #Big_Pharma.
L’aveu est passé sous les radars, et ce serait fort dommage qu’il le reste. Les déclarations lénifiantes d’Ursula von der Leyen, la présidente de la Commission, ou d’Emmanuel Macron, le président français, nul ne les ignore : le vaccin contre le Covid-19 devra être un « #bien_public mondial », répètent-ils...
D’autant plus que...,
Opinion | Want Vaccines Fast? Suspend Intellectual Property Rights - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/07/opinion/covid-vaccines-patents.html
Pfizer, for its part, received a $455 million grant from the German government to develop its vaccine, and then, by our count, nearly $6 billion in purchase commitments from the United States and the European Union.
AstraZeneca benefited from some public funding while it was developing its vaccine, and received a total of more than $2 billion from the United States and the European Union for both research and in purchase commitments. It also signed a deal worth $750 million to supply the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance with a total of 300 million doses.
In other words, the vaccines developed by these companies were developed thanks wholly or partly to taxpayer money. Those vaccines essentially belong to the people — and yet the people are about to pay for them again, and with little prospect of getting as many as they need fast enough.
Mais la duplicité a persisté
U.S., EU oppose WTO effort to waive IP protections amid pandemic | InsideTrade.com
▻https://insidetrade.com/daily-news/us-eu-oppose-wto-effort-waive-ip-protections-amid-pandemic
