Bharat Biotech Vaccine
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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.
Vektor has not published a global access plan for its vaccine.
Vektor has not published a human rights statement on its website.
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.
Vektor has not committed to a responsible licensing mechanism such as C-TAP or the MPP.
EpiVacCorona was patented on Dec 07th, 2020. The Vektor State Research Center is a government-run industry, and President Vladimir Putin has declared support to the patent waiver. However, there has been no explicit statement from the Vektor Center on not enforcing patents.
Vektor has not signed an agreement with the ACT Accelerator.
The vaccine has been licensed to Venezuela. It is unclear whether this deal is non-exclusive and what type of manufacturing it involves.
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.
[Only applies to therapeutics]
Vektor’s deal with Venezuela appears to be a supply agreement and not a transfer of technology.
Vektor has not made a commitment to non-profit or tiered pricing.
Vektor’s vaccine has been supplied only to Russia and Venezuela, which are both middle-income countries.
No information was found on this criterion.
No information was found on this criterion.
The company should be as transparent as possible, by publishing its research and development costs, profit margin, average costs of production, and production capacity for its Covid-19 product. It should also disclose the amount of public subsidies received during product development and/or testing. Licensing agreements should also be made publicly available and clinical trials should be registered in public repositories.
Vektor has not published its research and development costs.
Vektor has not published a profit margin for its vaccine.
The costs of producing the vaccine are not published.
Vektor plans to produce 500 000 doses of its vaccine.
The Vektor Center is a state-run institution which supposedly depends on public funds, although this is not specified. The vaccine was also partly funded by private donors, including Anna Popova and a donation by a deputy prime minister of Russia.
Vektor has not published the text of any licensing agreements.
Vektor has published a peer-reviewed scientific article on EpiVacCorona. Active clinical trials are also published on clinicaltrials.gov
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