SOUTH’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has called on pharmaceutical companies to transfer mRNA vaccine technology to low and middle-income countries “free of intellectual property barriers”.
Speaking at a virtual World Health Organization (WHO) briefing, Ramaphosa added that vaccine nationalism was seriously threatening the world’s recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and deepening inequality.
“Let us together challenge vaccine nationalism and ensure that protecting intellectual property rights does not come at the expense of human lives,” he added.
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