Pedro (Hrsg.) Roffe

Negotiating Health

Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines

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In developing countries, access to affordable medicines for the treatment of diseases such as AIDS and malaria remains a matter of life or death. In Africa, for instance, more than one million children die each year from malaria alone, a figure which could soon be far higher with the extension of patent rules for pharmaceuticals. Previously, access to essential medicines was made possible by the supply of much cheaper generics, manufactured largely by India; from 2005, however, the availability of these drugs is threatened as new WTO rules take effect. Halting the spread of malaria and HIV/AIDS is one of the eight Millennium Goals adopted at… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Tansey, Geoff (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-136-56049-1
EAN: 9781136560491
Produktnummer: 13873831
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Seitenangabe: 320 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 1'352 KB

Über den Autor

Pedro Roffe is a senior fellow at ICTSD and director of the TRIPS and Development capacity-building project. Geoff Tansey is an independent writer and consultant. He has worked extensively in developing countries for the Department for International Development, Oxfam and the UN, and was recently appointed a Visionary for a Just and Peaceful World by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust. David Vivas-Eugui is Programme Manager at ICTSD and specialises in intellectual property rights.