Proposals to waive intellectual property rights for pandemic response products in the World Health Organization pandemic accord need Australia's support

[Reply: Gleeson, D., Scheibner, J. and Nicol, D. (2023), Proposals to waive intellectual property rights for pandemic response products in the World Health Organization pandemic accord need Australia's support. Med J Aust, 219: 46-48. https://doi.org/10.5694/mja2.51990]

In reply: We thank Cueni and de Somer¹ for their interest in our article.² Equitable access to pandemic countermeasures is vital. What the world needs to ensure equity, however, is not privately held intellectual property (IP), but decentralised manufacturing underpinned by systematic technology transfer to manufacturers in low and middle-income countries.³