MSD, Ridgeback Biotherapeutics and Emory University will not receive royalties for sales of molnupiravir under this agreement for as long as COVID-19 remains classified as a Public Health Emergency
The Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) and Merck on Wednesday announced the signing of a voluntary licensing agreement to facilitate affordable global access for Molnupiravir.It is an investigational oral Covid-19 antiviral medicine for the treatment .
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G20 leaders boost support of the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator but urgent and immediate action is needed to maintain momentum
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21 May 2021 | Geneva World leaders today met at the Global Health Summit, co-hosted by the European Commission and Italy as part of its G20 presidency, to adopt an agenda to overcome the COVID-19 pandemic, and develop and endorse a Rome Declaration of principles, at a time when the virus is surging and spreading uncontrollably in many parts of the world.
With nine people losing their lives to COVID-19 every minute, and as the risk of even more transmissible and dangerous variants increases, the Global Health Summit comes at a critical juncture. The future of the pandemic is in the hands of the G20 leaders.
03 May 2021
India is facing a devastating COVID-19 outbreak. Having successfully managed the first pandemic wave in 2020, the country is now reeling from the gravity of a deadly second wave that is infecting over 300,000 people every single day. Heartbreaking scenes of patients lying outside hospitals on stretchers or inside cars due to a lack of beds have circulated around the world, and a severe scarcity of oxygen is contributing to a death toll that is running sky-high. The last 24 hours alone (3 May) saw 392,000 new cases and 3,689 deaths, according to the WHO.
As part of the Global Fund’s COVID-19 Response Mechanism 2021, the Global Fund is urgently processing a fast-track funding application from India’s Country Coordinating Mechanism to purchase oxygen concentrators and to finance Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) oxygen plants to help meet the medium-term needs for medical oxygen. We are working closely with the Government of India and national partners to identify soluti