Médecins Sans Frontières - Access/potential COVID-19 treatment

Unique Identifier Code / URN MSF311979

Date taken / Date Recorded 06/04/2020 12:00 AM

Country Brazil

Commissioning section MSF-BRAZIL

Photographer / videographer / producer Mariana Abdalla

Usage Rights (MSF) Advertising Campaign, External Media, MSF Fundraising, MSF Publications, Social Media

Formal Consent Copy available yes

Editor's rating ★★★★★ (C)

Video format h264 (Main) (avc1 / 0x31637661)

Duration 1m31s

Maximum Size 1080px × 1080px 109.47 MB

Additional Information / Shotlist ENGLISH SCRIPT:

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Hi everyone.
Right now, we're all

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hoping that science

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Will deliver us vaccines, drugs and effective diagnostics fast in order to fight the new coronavirus pandemic.

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But this is not enough. We need to ensure that all of this is accessible to everyone,

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and not a luxury for just the few.

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Therefore, it's essential that corporations

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give up their exclusive rights.

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Especially since many of these products

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are being developed with public funding.

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Governments, on the other hand, need to use

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public health measures to prevent the

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patenting of these products,

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like, for example,using a

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compulsory license.

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This is important because patents

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generate monopolies.

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That is, only one company has the right to sell the product.

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This causes two serious problems:
1. Insufficient quantity
2. High prices

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If that happens, the cure

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will be a privilege only for a few

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and millions (?) billions (?) of people will be excluded.

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We´ve faced global epidemics before

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and millions of people could have been saved

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if it weren't for the high prices charged

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on patented drugs.

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We need to prevent this injustice from happening,

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so now, more than ever, we need

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to claim that health is not a commodity

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and that collectively funded scientific knowledge

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is not private property.

Access/potential COVID-19 treatment - ENG

Access/potential COVID-19 treatment - ENG