Doctors Without Borders: US Trade Report Could Be Used to Block Countries From Making Affordable COVID-19 Medicines
April 30, 2020
April 30, 2020
NEW YORK, April 30 -- The Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres issued the following news:
Amidst the ongoing global crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States Trade Representative (USTR) released its annual "Special 301 Report" that calls out countries for implementing and supporting public health safeguards in their intellectual property laws and policies. The US government uses this report to annually target countries it believes are not adequa . . .
Amidst the ongoing global crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States Trade Representative (USTR) released its annual "Special 301 Report" that calls out countries for implementing and supporting public health safeguards in their intellectual property laws and policies. The US government uses this report to annually target countries it believes are not adequa . . .