Bharat Biotech Vaccine
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Applying human rights to pharma
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The company should publicly commit to human rights in relation to product development and marketing, by adopting an official human rights policy statement recognising the right to the highest attainable standard of health. The company should endeavour to integrate human rights into its strategies, policies, programmes, projects, and activities.
The company should also have a publicly available global access plan for their Covid-19 product, based on human rights standards, with measurable targets and lines of accountability.
Regeneron is collaborating with Roche to increase global supply of REGEN-COV: “The companies share a commitment to making the antibody cocktail available to COVID-19 patients around the globe and will support access in low- and lower-middle-income countries through drug donations to be made in partnership with public health organizations.”
Apart from this, the company has not published a concrete plan for maximising access to REGEN-COV.
Regeneron has published a statement on human rights, but does not endorse the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.
The company should constructively engage with international initiatives for the equitable distribution of vaccines and therapeutics, such as the Covid-19 Technology Access Pool (C-TAP) or the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP), and the ACT Accelerator (COVAX). The company should also publicly commit to not enforcing the exclusive rights of Covid-19 related patents, and enter into non-exclusive, transparent licensing agreements for its Covid-19 products with other companies.
Regeneron does not commit to C-TAP or the MPP.
Regeneron has not made a commitment not to enforce patents
Regeneron has not signed an agreement with the therapeutics pillar of the ACT Accelerator.
Regeneron has entered into a full licensing deal with Roche and a development and commercialization deal with Chugai.
The company should engage in efforts to further equitable distribution of Covid-19 vaccines/therapeutics, by equitably distributing its supplies globally, devising fair pricing strategies, and making the active ingredient for its product available to other manufacturers. The company should also engage in full technology transfer to other manufacturers, including the necessary transfer of skills, legal components, knowledge and intellectual property. Where applicable, the company should agree to waive rights in regulatory test data, and refrain from enforcing TRIPS+ measures.
Regeneron does not make the active ingredient available to other manufacturers.
Regeneron is collaborating with Roche, and does technology transfer to them. It also has a deal with Chugai which includes very limited technology transfer in the form of ‘development and commercialization rights’.
Regeneron has not committed to non-profit or ‘fair’ pricing so far.
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