Negotiating Health : Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines

ISBN-13: 9781844072941 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 320 str.

Opis

An analysis on the post-2005 world, and a discussion on how action may be taken to ensure that access to medicines is not sacrificed to corporate attempts to protect business interests. This book comes at a time when access to affordable medicines, for the

Spis treści

Introduction: Legal Fictions and Public Health * PART I, THE DYNAMICS OF MEDICINAL PATENT POWER * From Paris to Doha: The WTO Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health * The Cycle of Action and Reaction: Developments and Trends in Intellectual Property and Health * Ensuring Access to Medicines in 2005 and Beyond * Role, Perspectives and Challenges of the Generic Pharmaceutical Industry in Latin America * Market Concentration of the Transnational Pharmaceutical Industry and the Generic Industries: Trends on Mergers, Acquisitions and Other Transactions * PART II, ACCESS CONTROL: BEYOND PATENTS TO DATA * Protecting Test Data for Pharmaceutical and Agrochemical Products under Free Trade Agreements * Intellectual Property, Data Exclusivity, Innovation and Market Access * The International Legal Status of Undisclosed Clinical Trial Data: From Private to Public Goods? * Data Protection: Options for Implementation * PART III WAYS FORWARD IN PROMOTING ACCESS * Advancing Public Health by Other Means: Using Competition Policy * Product Development Partnerships on 'Neglected Diseases': Intellectual Property and Improving Access to Pharmaceuticals for HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria * Creating and Promoting Domestic Drug Manufacturing Capacities: A Solution for Developing Countries? * Four Practical Measures to Enhance Access to Medical Technologies * Expanding Policy Options for Access to Medicines for