The Need to Avoid “TRIPS - Plus” Patent Clauses in Trade Agreements

28/03/2017
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Avery interesting article on why there are inequalities in access to health care and how medicine prices are beyond reach of many people was published in February 2017 in The Lancet, one of the most prestigiousmedical and health journals in the world.  The authors, who are eminent experts in development and public health, pinpointed trade and investment agreements for being one of the greatest threats to health of people worldwide.
 
Their short but powerful commentary prompts the questions: What’s the point of having wonderful medicines if most people on Earth cannot get to use them?  And isn’t it immoral that medicines that can save your life can’t be given to you because the cost is so high?
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Continue reading in the attached document.
 

South Centre Policy Brief, No. 37, March 2017

 

https://www.alainet.org/en/articulo/184412
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