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U.S. Department of State: The United States Condemns Attempts by PRC-Affiliated Actors to Steal American COVID-19 Research In this press statement, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo “condemns attempts by cyber actors and non-traditional collectors affiliated with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) to steal U.S. intellectual property and data…
Financial Times: ‘People’s vaccine’ for coronavirus must be free, leaders urge “Any vaccine against Covid-19 should be patent-free, produced at scale, and made available at no cost to people everywhere, three African leaders and more than 140 public figures, including 50 former world leaders, have urged in an open letter.…
Health Policy Watch: World Health Assembly Resolution On COVID-19 Response: The Stark Choices Faced In A Polarized World Of Global Health “As the 73rd World Health Assembly approaches, the European Union-sponsored draft resolution on the COVID-19 response is gathering steam and storm as it rolls closer to the planned opening…
Devex: Data around COVID-19 is a mess and here’s why that matters (Cornish et al., 5/11). Devex: How aid implementers can avoid a post-coronavirus accounting fiasco (Igoe, 5/11). New York Times: How Pandemics End (Kolata, 5/10). Science: Lethal levels of heat and humidity are gripping global ‘hot spots’ sooner than…
STAT: Gilead sues U.S., claiming it ‘secretly’ obtained patents on HIV research that led to Truvada “Gilead Sciences (GILD) has accused the U.S. government of breaching several contracts and ‘secretly’ obtaining patents stemming from research that led to the ground-breaking Truvada HIV-prevention pill. In a lawsuit filed late Friday, the…
The Conversation: World Health Organization: what does it spend its money on? Sumit Mazumdar, research fellow at the Centre for Health Economics at the University of York (4/23). Devex: Opinion: ‘Accelerate your commitments’ during COVID-19 — an open letter to donors Representatives of the Network for Empowered Aid Response (NEAR),…
STAT: Poor countries must not be forgotten in the Covid-19 battle, Unitaid director warns “Founded more than a dozen years ago, Unitaid has received more than $3 billion in donations for its work to research and identify solutions to such tenacious diseases as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. … Unitaid recently…
The Atlantic: Authoritarian Populists Have Six Classic Moves. Trump’s Response to COVID-19 Uses Five of Them. Kristy Parker, counsel at Protect Democracy, and Yascha Mounk, contributing writer at The Atlantic, associate professor at Johns Hopkins University, senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund, senior adviser at Protect Democracy, and author…
AFP/France 24: NGOs press drug firm Gilead over potential virus treatment (3/30). Financial Times: Big drugmakers under pressure to share patents against coronavirus (Mancini, 3/31). Financial Times: Gates Foundation and Wellcome Trust to fund Covid-19 drug trials (Kuchler, 3/30). Reuters: J&J, Moderna sign deals with U.S. to produce possible coronavirus…
The BMJ: Children’s health and wellbeing must be prioritized by governments, experts urge (Mahase, 2/20). Devex: What is ‘mutual prosperity’ and what does it mean for U.K. aid? (Worley, 2/21). The Lancet: Locust swarms in east Africa could be ‘a catastrophe’ (Devi, 2/22). Reuters: Time running out to end Venezuela’s…