{"id":153517,"date":"2021-05-07T12:16:02","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T12:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/?p=185417"},"modified":"2021-05-07T12:16:02","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T12:16:02","slug":"a-temporary-trips-waiver-is-not-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/05\/07\/a-temporary-trips-waiver-is-not-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"A Temporary TRIPS Waiver Is Not Enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new poll finds that 59% percent of US voters support waiving all patent protections to produce generic versions of life-saving medicines for critical diseases, from Covid-19 and HIV\/AIDS, to heart disease and diabetes. Only 28% disagreed.<\/p>\n<p>The survey carried out by Data for Progress and the Progressive International, shows a super majority of 71% registered Democrats support the removal of all patent barriers to allow for the cheaper production of life-saving medicines. Even registered Republicans support the action with 47% in favor compared to 39% opposed.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/a-temporary-trips-waiver-is-not-enough\/\">A Temporary TRIPS Waiver Is Not Enough<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/a-temporary-trips-waiver-is-not-enough\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new poll finds that 59% percent of US voters support waiving all patent protections to produce generic versions of life-saving medicines for critical diseases, from Covid-19 and HIV\/AIDS, to heart disease and diabetes. Only 28% disagreed.<br \/>\nThe survey &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1557,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[304,5725,9170,595,312],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153518,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153517\/revisions\/153518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}