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Negotiating health : intellectual property and access to medicines / edited by Pedro Roffe, Geoff Tansey and David Vivas-Eugui.
Roffe, Pedro., author.; Roffe, Pedro, editor.; Tansey, Geoff, coed.; Vivas Eugui, David, coed.
2006
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Title
Negotiating health : intellectual property and access to medicines / edited by Pedro Roffe, Geoff Tansey and David Vivas-Eugui.
Author
Roffe, Pedro., author.
Roffe, Pedro, editor.
Tansey, Geoff, coed.
Vivas Eugui, David, coed.
Description
xviii, 302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN
9781844072941
1844072940 hardback
9781844072958 paperback
1844072959 paperback
9781461905769 electronic book
1461905761 electronic book
9781849772082 electronic book
1849772088 electronic book
1280475501
9781280475504
9781136560507 e-book : PDF
1136560505
9781136560453 e-book : Mobi
1136560459
9781136560491 e-book : ePub
1136560491
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G 25 ROF.N
Summary
Annotation 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 this year, 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 the UN Millennium Summit, which makes this a timely and topical book. Informed analysis is provided by internationally renowned contributors who look at the post-2005 world and discuss how action may be taken to ensure access to medicines is not sacrificed to corporate attempts to protect business interests.
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Annotation 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 this year, 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 the UN Millennium Summit, which makes this a timely and topical book. Informed analysis is provided by internationally renowned contributors who look at the post-2005 world and discuss how action may be taken to ensure access to medicines is not sacrificed to corporate attempts to protect business interests.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-295) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
From Paris to Doha : the WTO Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and public health / Pedro Roffe with Christoph Spennemann and Johanna von Braun
The cycle of action and reaction : developments and trends in intellectual property and health / Frederick M. Abbott

Ensuring access to medicines in 2005 and beyond / Karin Timmermans
Role, perspectives and challenges of the generic pharmaceutical industry in Latin America / Mirta Levis
Market concentration of the transnational pharmaceutical industry and the generic industries : trends on mergers, acquisitions and other transactions / Barbara Rosenberg
Protecting test data for pharmaceutical and agrochemical products under free trade agreements / Carlos M. Correa
Intellectual property, data exclusivity, innovation and market access / Meir Perez Pugatch


The international legal status of undisclosed clinical trial data : from private to public goods? / Jerome H. Reichman
Data protection : options for implementation / Robert Weissman
Advancing public health by other means: using competition policy / Jonathan Berger
Product development partnerships on neglected diseases : intellectual property and improving access to pharmaceuticals for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria / Roy Widdus
Creating and promoting domestic drug manufacturing capacities : a solution for developing countries? / Joan Rovira
Four practical measures to enhance access to medical technologies / James Love
Expanding policy options for access to medicines for all / Geoff Tansey.
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Published
London : Earthscan, 2006.
Language
English
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