International Public Health: Patients' Rights vs. the Protection of Patents

ISBN-13: 9780815389804 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 187 str.

Yves Beigbeder

Opis

This perceptive book highlights the need for cooperation between major organisations - whether intergovernmental, commercial or nongovernmental - to ensure developing countries have access to affordable medicines and vaccines, in spite of their different mandates and interests.

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction. Part I: The United Nations and the World Health Organization: United Nations organizations and business; The World Health Organization and business. Part II: Setting International Public Health Policy; The promotion of breastfeeding; Essential drugs and the pharmaceutical industry; The global HIV/AIDS epidemic. Part III: Public-Private Partnerships for Health: Controlling onchocerciasis; The eradication of poliomyelitis; Fighting malaria and tuberculosis; Vaccines and immunization. Part IV: Fighting the Industry: Tobacco, the perfect 'foe'. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Yves Beigbeder