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The Pandemic Treaty and Intellectual Property Sharing: Making Vaccine Knowledge a Public Good 

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The Pandemic Treaty (or other legal instrument) scheduled for discussion at the World Health Assembly in the fall of 2021 should focus on establishing the norm that the IP and knowledge needed to develop and produce essential pandemic health technologies become global public goods. and German governments in particular.

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Reclaiming Global Public Health

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Dose shortages elevated the role of pharmaceutical executives. The answer to one of the most important public health questions of our time — who gets access to vaccines? The answer to one of the most important public health questions of our time — who gets access to vaccines? — Private decisions did not match public health need.

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

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One of the first outputs of this informal collective, led by Knowledge Ecology International, was to instigate and support an initiative by Costa Rica to establish and IP licensing pool at the WHO for COVID-19 health technologies.