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The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and the People’s Health Movement (PHM) are calling on the South African government to revoke patents granted to pharmaceutical corporations Eli Lilly and Moderna for a COVID-19 medicine and an mRNA vaccine. These patents in South Africa will likely undermine people’s access to lifesaving treatments and vaccines and could prolong the pandemic for everyone, everywhere. Despite acknowledging that patents can be a barrier for access to medicines through its leadership on the COVID-19 TRIPS wa…