{"id":2283,"date":"2021-04-28T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/pragma-virtual-week-vaccines-and-ip-the-way-forward-by-carolina-vera\/"},"modified":"2021-04-28T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T07:00:00","slug":"pragma-virtual-week-vaccines-and-ip-the-way-forward-by-carolina-vera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloudactive.net\/vera\/pragma-virtual-week-vaccines-and-ip-the-way-forward-by-carolina-vera\/","title":{"rendered":"Excerpts from the PRAGMA Virtual week conference: Vaccines and IP: The Way Forward by Carolina Vera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00abHistorically, IP and vaccines have been inextricably intertwined, especially in the area of patents. It is a fact that patents granted to inventors have constituted the basis of technological advancement in a variety of scientific fields.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With regard to the pharmaceutical sector, such technological advancement has enabled the development of new products in order to improve the health, quality of life and life expectancy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nevertheless, it is worth discussing the ethical issue which arises when patents obstruct millions of people\u2019s access to curative medicine or to a vaccine which can save lives as well as the obligation that all states have to preserve the lives of their citizens.*\u00bb<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3979\" src=\"https:\/\/cloudactive.net\/vera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/tw1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"570\" height=\"317\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More info: <a href=\"https:\/\/congress.pragma.international\/\">https:\/\/congress.pragma.international\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00abHistorically, IP and vaccines have been inextricably intertwined, especially in the area of patents. It is a fact that patents granted to inventors have constituted the basis of technological advancement in a variety of scientific fields. With regard to the pharmaceutical sector, such technological advancement has enabled the development of new products in order to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudactive.net\/vera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudactive.net\/vera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudactive.net\/vera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudactive.net\/vera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudactive.net\/vera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cloudactive.net\/vera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudactive.net\/vera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudactive.net\/vera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudactive.net\/vera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudactive.net\/vera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}