European Union urges the World Health Assembly to pursue a voluntary pool for Covid-19 products
In a significant development, the European Union has proposed a draft resolution urging the World Health Assembly to voluntarily pool intellectual property as part of a plan to ensure “equitable access” to vaccines, treatments, and other medical products for combating the pandemic.
The move, which anticipates the WHA will hold a virtual session next month, comes after the World Health Organization Director General last week endorsed the idea of creating such a pool to collect patent rights, regulatory test data, and other information that could be shared for developing drugs, vaccines, and diagnostics.
