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Union umbrella group Global Nurses United has highlighted how waiving patent rights would help alleviate ‘vaccine apartheid.’ MARK GRUENBERG reports
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The conflict came to a head when nurses unions from 28 nations, including National Nurses United (NNU) in the US, the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions, its Quebec counterpart, and Brazil’s big nurses’ union, all demanded an end to what they call “vaccine apartheid.”
In plain language, their formal complaint to the United Nations and the World Trade Organisation (WTO) on November 28, just before the UN’s World Health Organisation (WHO) met in Geneva, Switzerland, demands a waiver of international “intellectual property” trade rules so more vaccines can be shipped and/or produced, worldwide.
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