Essays about: "conflict to access medicine."
Found 5 essays containing the words conflict to access medicine..
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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. Patents And Human Rights : Conflicts with Access to Medicine in Pandemics, and COVID-19 Recommendations
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : Since the last century, many wars and violations of Human Rights were direct reasons that set the pace to develop Human Rights laws, especially after the end of World War II and the holocausts associated with it. One of the critical Human Rights is that ‘to life’, relating to the right ‘to health’, hence the fundamental accessibility to healthcare services and products. 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. Is Access To Medicine A Corporate Social Responsibility?
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : The progress made in the field of patents on pharmaceuticals the last fifteen years, has been of continuous change and adaptation. From the introduction of the TRIPS Agreement in 1995, where patents on pharmaceuticals became a necessity for all Member States of the WTO, to today, where a ratification of the TRIPS Amendment is ongoing, and might be a mean to enhance access to medicine for all people. READ MORE
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5. Compulsory Licensing of Pharmaceutical Products & Access to Essential Medicines in Developing Countries
University essay from Ekonomiska institutionenAbstract : For many years pharmaceutical patents and their impact on prices have been at the centre of the international debate over insufficient access to lifesaving HIV/AIDS medicines in developing countries. The conflict has largely revolved around the implementation of an intellectual property system in the developing world, subsequent the adaptation of the TRIPS Agreement, which has made a 20 year pharmaceutical patent protection mandatory for these countries and consequently contributed to high drug prices for patented medicines as well as limited the use of generic drugs. READ MORE
