Here you’ll find a list of articles recently shared within our Labs and relevant to the Free The Vaccine campaign. We hope this can be a resource for those in our Labs as well as outside!
April 16, 2020: This article in The Lancet explains how an intellectual property pool could be used to ensure access worldwide, supporting the proposal made by Costa Rica.
April 27, 2020: Mariana Mazzucato, University College London professor, and Els Torreele, Executive Director of the Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) Access Campaign, explain how specific intellectual property, manufacturing, and procurement policies can ensure equitable access to a vaccine around the world.
How Patents Can Hurt Access to Coronavirus Vaccines and Treatment
June 1, 2014: This article in Jacobin Magazine explains how the Bayh-Dole Act has been used to privatize publicly-funded academic research, to the detriment of patients and the quality of science overall.
April 15, 2020: In The Guardian, access to medicines experts Achal Prabhala and Ellen ‘t Hoen explain how patent thickets could restrict access to the most promising treatments for coronavirus.
April 23, 2020: Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, economics professor Arjun Jayadev, and access to medicines advocate Achal Prabhala explain why patent reform is necessary to combat the pandemic.
October 10, 2016: This post from Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders explains why drug and vaccine donations are not a substitute for measures that can actually lower prices.
