#FreeThePatents #VaccinesForAll
global campaign #FreeThePatents / #VaccinesForAll"Faced with the vaccine shortage, we demand patent release, public production and fair distribution."
Among many others who spoke in favor of the immediate release of patents were: Dilma Rousseff, Silvio Rodríguez, Piedad Córdoba, Atilio Borón, the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), the Bolivian Minister of Productive Development Teresa Morales, and Karina Batthyány, Executive Secretary of CLACSO, who stated: “Today more than ever we need to put life at the center and consider COVID-19 vaccines as public goods.”
Likewise, some 200 organizations joined forces through a manifesto demanding, among other things, the elimination of trade secrets and the publication of information on production costs and public investment. "In a situation as critical as the one we are experiencing, the exceptional circumstances demanded of the majority of the population must also be applied to the private pharmaceutical industry and its relentless pursuit of profit," the text states. It is precisely this "exceptionalism" that, according to the signatories, has led us to this situation. a matter of priority.
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