Africa: TRIPS Waiver - There's More to the Story Than Vaccine Patents

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The US has announced its limited support for the "TRIPS waiver", a proposal to suspend intellectual property protections for products and technologies needed for the fight against COVID-19, including vaccines, for the duration of the pandemic.

This would involve a temporary suspension of certain rules set out in the TRIPS Agreement, the intellectual property treaty of the World Trade Organization (WTO).

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