Essays about: "generic medicines"
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1. Hardware accelerator for SOM based DNA sequencing Algorithm
University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)Abstract : The prevalent experience based diagnosis of health problem are often incorrect. Different aspect of this problem are microorganism’s adaptation of antibiotics and effectiveness of the generic medicines on each individual etc. The DNA sequencing based diagnosis is evolving to deal with this problem. READ MORE
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2. 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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3. TRIPS and medicines – Prices, Availability and Health: The effect on India, Thailand, South Africa and Brazil
University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionenAbstract : This thesis investigates the TRIPS-agreement signed by all members of the World Trade Organization and how it has affected the price and availability on medicines, and in extension its overall effect on health. This was investigated by conducting four case studies of India, Thailand, South Africa and Brazil. READ MORE
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4. The Use and Abuse of Patents – Evergreening in the Pharmaceutical Sector
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : This thesis identifies some of the uncertainties surrounding the application of Article 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) to evergreening of pharmaceutical patens. The concept of ever¬greening refers to a multitude of strategies adopted by patent holders with the aim to extend the privileged position that the patentee holds due to this exclusive right. READ MORE
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5. Pharmaceutical Patents, Right to Health and Access to Essential Medicines: A Human Rights Critique
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : Until recently, the areas of patent law and human rights law were treated separately. The tensions between pharmaceutical patents and the human right to health could be felt already in the 1980s, when the HIV/AIDS pandemic broke out and the pharmaceutical company that discovered a drug which could be used to treat this disease decided to patent it and set the price so high, that it was impossible for most people living in poor countries, where the disease was most prevalent, to access them. READ MORE
