The WTO Ministerial Conference—one of the most important events in the organization’s calendar, when State representatives gather—is approaching. On the week of June 13th, the TRIPS Waiver will be on the agenda of the day and pressure for a consensus will be high.

Since its tabling, the EU and the US have pulled out all the tricks in their hats in an attempt to block the measure designed to fight vaccine inequality. Listen to the discussion between Clara Alves (MSF Brazil) and Sangeeta Shashikant (TWN), who has been at the forefront of the advocacy work at the WTO. Sangeeta shares her precious perceptions about the measure, multilateralism issues, pandemic preparedness and activism.

Clara Alves is Humanitarian Affairs and Advocacy Specialist specialist at Doctors without Borders (MSF) in Brazil. She is an access to medicines activist, has a degree in International Relations, a Master’s in Public Health from the Rio de Janeiro State University (IMS/UERJ).

Sangeeta Shashikant is a legal and policy advisor for Third World Network. She obtained her Masters in Laws from the University College London and her Bachelors in Laws, from the University of Malaya.