U.S. civil society groups, lawmakers press Biden to support TRIPS waiver

Hundreds of civil society groups in the U.S., along with several progressive lawmakers, are keeping up the pressure on the Biden administration to reverse the previous administration’s opposition to a proposal to waive some intellectual property commitments at the World Trade Organization in response to the pandemic, an issue that has galvanized advocacy groups as a question of equity and, they say, hypocrisy. The waiver, which would apply to a swath of obligations under the WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects...