He had also told the G7 that South Africa and other developing countries wanted the G7 countries and their various associations to buy vaccines that are made in Africa for their own citizens as well as for other African countries to which they may donate. Ramaphosa said the G7 leaders had agreed to do that.
“And the bigger picture is that before you even get to IP [intellectual property] waivers, until and unless there is a reorientation of the international procurement mechanism and there’s a real commitment to buy from Africa, including for African governments themselves to buy from Africa, unless that first step happens, it’s pointless putting up any facilities or doing any tech transfers, because it’s all going to amount to nothing.
Hassan said that, after all of Ramaphosa’s hard lobbying internationally for many months for this full TRIPS waiver, South Africa was in the end bullied by the US and European Union into a “very bad deal” which had jeopardised timely access to treatment, diagnostics and other technologies. Hassan added that it was optimistic of Ramaphosa to expect that the WTO might allow a waiver on Covid therapeutics and diagnostics in six months as the WTO was notoriously slow in reaching such decisions.Ramaphosa’s spokesperson, Vincent Magwenya, said the President had also raised concerns with the G7 leaders “about the absence of equity and transparency in the availability of vaccines for African countries, which has been sharply exposed by the Covid-19 pandemic”.
Ramaphosa said United Nations secretary-general António Guterres had explained to the G7 leaders his efforts to open the channels so that exports of cereals and fertilisers from Russia and Ukraine could resume. “We thought the report was very positive,” he added.
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