Regional Cooperation, Intellectual Property Law and Access to Medicines

ISBN-13: 9781032379036 / Twarda / 2023 / 144 str.

Tolulope Anthony Adekola

Opis

This book examines the potential for regionalization of intellectual property law and policy as a means of improving pharmaceutical access for least developed countries. It takes the East African Community as a case study of developing and least developed countries to illustrate why and how a regional collective approach is preferred.

Spis treści

1.  Setting the Scene: The Context and the Problem;  2. Mapping the Healthcare Systems and Epidemiology of the East African Community: Context for Pharmaceutical Access;  3.  Leveraging TRIPS Flexibilities for Pharmaceutical Access- A Survey of EAC Partner States’ Patent Laws;  4.  TRIPS Amendment’s Special Regional Treatment- An Appraisal;  5. The Feasibility or Otherwise of Regional Pharmaceutical Production in the EAC;  6. Regional Cooperation, Human Rights and Equitable Vaccine Distribution - The COVID-19 Pandemic Experience;  7. Charting the regional cooperative path

O autorze

Tolulope Anthony Adekola is a Research Fellow at TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland, Australia.