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The Biden administration’s decision to waive intellectual property rights for the Covid-19 vaccine is a remarkable first step toward remaking a monopolistic, profit-driven system that is literally killing people. American philanthropy needs to join the growing global movement to create a new approach.
Beijing, May 24 (China Economic Net) - Currently, there are 318 overseas students in our school, of which 90% are from Belt and Road countries, said Luo Jun, vice president of Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University (NWAFU) said at the Promotion conference of SCO demonstration base for Agricultural technology exchange and training. He also told us that they are planning to establish an alumni association for Pakistani students who graduated from NWAFU. We have more than 100 Pakistan graduates who have gone back to Pakistan, many of them are now working in colleges and universities. They are contributing a lot to the agriculture talent training of Pakistan. We hope that through the alumni association, they can play their role in improving Pakistan agriculture in a better way. Luo Jun said, adding that NWAFU has established overseas demonstration areas in Pakistan, where their alumni provided a lot of help.
Africa should tackle failures in technology sharing
Universities in Africa must be more vocal about the failures of higher education institutions in the Global North to challenge the status quo of innovation- and technology-sharing that is denying millions access to life-saving treatments, Sarai Keestra, a research coordinator of the Universities Allied for Essential Medicines in the United Kingdom has told
University World News.
In an e-mail exchange following a commentary she wrote in
BMJ Global Health she said: “African universities can hold universities in the Global North to account by actively voicing their concern about the way universities are currently contributing to preventable deaths and suffering when they fail to challenge the status quo of a biomedical innovation system that denies access to life-saving treatments for millions.”
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