), competition law and access to affordable life-saving treatments and vaccines. Compulsory licensing of patented medicines is a … extreme urgency" within the meaning of Article 31(b) of the TRIPS Agreement. Some legislations, such as European competition …

The World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS … patents might be mediated including through TRIPS flexibilities. The comment argues that there are sufficient means of … surveillance, tracking, diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19. A possible solution is a TRIPS waiver of the implementation …

Understanding the direct and indirect health consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic is critical in designing a holistic … impacts of the pandemic. Validating our earlier study using health insurance claims, our findings showed a sharp decline in … estimates, the long-run costs from productivity losses from direct and indirect health impacts of the pandemic amount to PHP 2 …

The negotiations on the Pandemic Agreement offered a key opportunity for the World Health Organization’s (WHO) 194 … legal instrument at the Seventy-seventh World Health Assembly in May 2024. However, Member States were not able to … Member States to address the weaknesses of existing international regulations governing global health – and to adopt a new …