Essays about: "access to medicines and human rights"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 13 essays containing the words access to medicines and human rights.
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1. Pharmaceutical Patent in the Dock oh Human Rights: A Conflict with Right to Access Medicine.
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : Intellectual property laws bestow a time bound individual right to a right holder, which after a certain period dissolves into the society for the betterment of all. In theory it is meant to be a win-win situation for both individuals and the society but in practice it is not so. READ MORE
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2. Using Compulsory Licenses to Facilitate Access to Medicines: The Indian Experience
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : The attempts to make use of a compulsory licensing provision under the TRIPS Agreement brought human rights, notably, the right to health, into the foreground of the debate between patents and access to medicines. This whole thesis is about the existing tensions between the two regimes – patents and human rights. READ MORE
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3. Medical Patent Protection Impacts on Access to Medicine in China
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : Along with the interrelation between medical patent right, the generics impacts and the right to access to medicines, which as one of intersection issues between Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) and Human Rights (HR), has drawn more and more attention under the international society, the Doha Declaration on TRIPS and Public Health has reaffirmed the flexibilities of the Agreement on the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) member states in circumventing patent rights for better access to essential medicines in 2001. Considering the TRIPS flexibilities importance on promoting access to medicines in the most developing and the least developed countries, the thesis basically checks how medical patent rights impact on the access to medicines in China and how China has utilized the TRIPS flexibilities in recent years. READ MORE
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4. Access to Medicines and Pharmaceutical Patents:Corporate Responsibility to Respect in the Pharmaceutical Industry
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : The U.N. Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights is the final work of the meticulous mandate upheld by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General between 2005 and 2011. READ MORE
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5. The role of TRIPS in health innovation and access to medicines in Brazil
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : The thesis undertakes an analysis of the current tension between patents law obligations under TRIPS Agreement and human rights, specifically in the context of how the TRIPS Agreement influences health innovation and access to medicines in Brazil. Following a general overview of the interaction between human rights and patent law within the WTO, the central aim is based on the empirical analysis of two Brazilian case studies: “Pharmaceutical Patents on Access to Medicines” and “ONSA Network’s Genoma Program”. READ MORE
