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Access-to-Medicines Activists Demand Health Justice During COVID-19 Pandemic

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Activists anticipated the rise of vaccine, therapeutic, and testing nationalism — with rich countries securing preferential access to COVID-19 medical technologies and preventing export to other countries even before they had been approved — and the press soon followed.

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Reclaiming Global Public Health

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Patents and trade secrets empower private actors to make decisions about pricing, production, and supply of important medical technologies — in short, about public health. Monopoly control presents profound questions for public health governance. Underpinning this private power was intellectual property (IP).