书目名称 | Global Lessons from the AIDS Pandemic | 副标题 | Economic, Financial, | 编辑 | Bradly J. Condon,Tapen Sinha | 视频video | | 概述 | Unprecedented multidisciplinary scope: economic, legal, financial and business aspects of HIV/AIDS.Lessons for global pandemics.Includes supplementary material: | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | We began to research for this book in 2000, with the idea that we might contribute to the search for solutions to the global HIV/AIDS pandemic by c- bining perspectives from different disciplines. Much has happened in the interv- ing years. First, the severity of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa – and the threat it posed for many others regions of the world – led to a movement among several countries to correct the imbalance between producers and users of ph- maceutical products. This effort produced a clarification of the right of gove- ments to produce generic medicine under compulsory licenses and an amendment of the World Trade Organization’s TRIPS Agreement to allow exports of generic medicines from one WTO Member to another. In 2007, the amended rules were put into practice, with Canada authorizing the export of generic antiretroviral drugs to Rwanda. However, at the same time, global patent laws have been undermined due to regulatory capture, most notably in free trade agreements and through political pressure on countries like Thailand to not to exercise their right to issue compulsory licenses for pharmaceutical products. Second, the amount of money available fo | 出版日期 | Book 2008 | 关键词 | Aids; Developing Countries; Epidemics; HIV; International Organizations; Patents; Public Health; UNAIDS; Wor | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78392-3 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-642-09712-6 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-540-78392-3 | copyright | Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008 |
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