{"id":87511,"date":"2020-05-30T18:49:22","date_gmt":"2020-05-30T13:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=87511"},"modified":"2020-08-17T17:14:41","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T11:44:41","slug":"urges-nations-jointly-fight-corona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/latest-news\/urges-nations-jointly-fight-corona\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO URGES NATIONS TO JOINTLY FIGHT CORONA."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A push for a joint effort to fight corona by mostly developing nations, called the <strong>COVID-19 Technology Access Pool<\/strong>, won praise from groups including Doctors Without Borders, a drug industry alliance questioned if the effort to pool intellectual property would really broaden access to medicines.<\/p>\n<p>Developing and some small nations fear rich countries pumping resources into finding vaccines will muscle their way to the front of the queue, once a candidate succeeds. More than 100 such research are in progress.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Vaccines, tests, diagnostics, treatments and other key tools in the coronavirus response must be made universally available as global public goods,&#8221; said Costa Rica President Carlos Alvarado.<\/p>\n<p>The effort, originally proposed in March, aims to provide a one-stop shop for scientific knowledge, data and intellectual property amid a pandemic that has infected more than 5.8 million people and killed more than 360,000.<\/p>\n<p>The WHO issued a &#8220;Solidarity Call to Action&#8221;, asking other stakeholders to join the voluntary push.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;WHO recognises the important role that patents play in fuelling innovation but this is a time when people must take priority,&#8221; WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told an online news briefing.<\/p>\n<p>The International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers &amp; Associations raised concerns about undermining intellectual property protections, which the group said already enable collaboration and will also be needed after the pandemic is over.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The &#8216;Solidarity Call to Action&#8217; promotes a one-size-fits all model that disregards the specific circumstances of each situation, each product and each country,&#8221; the federation said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A push for a joint effort to fight corona by mostly developing nations, called the COVID-19 Technology Access Pool, won praise from groups including Doctors Without Borders, a drug industry alliance questioned if the effort to pool intellectual property would really broaden access to medicines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":55278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[17,1511],"tags":[92435,93574,93576,93575,917],"yst_prominent_words":[],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2019\/01\/23131819\/WHO.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87511"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87511"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=87511"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=87511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->