Negotiating Health - Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines (Paperback)

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 2005, 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 that intellectual property regimes are interpreted and implemented in a manner supportive to the right to protect public health and, in particular, to promote access to medicines for all.

General

Imprint:	Earthscan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2005
First published:	2006
Editors:	Pedro Roffe • Geoff Tansey
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	320
ISBN-13:	978-1-84407-295-8
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Pharmacology > General Books > Professional & Technical > Industrial chemistry & manufacturing technologies > Industrial chemistry > Pharmaceutical technology
LSN:	1-84407-295-9
Barcode:	9781844072958

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