How can we confront patent regimes in the fight against COVID-19?

Newsclick’s Prabir Purkayastha talks about issues around intellectual property rights in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic.

April 22, 2020 by Newsclick

Newsclick’s Prabir Purkayastha talks about issues around intellectual property rights in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. How do intellectual property rights affect the development and use of medicines, equipment such as masks, and vaccines? How can countries ensure that their access to these essentials will not be blocked by patent regimes?