In December 2002, and after one year of negotiations, the WTO failed to reach a solution in the controversy over access to generic drugs in developing countries. This in spite of the objective clearly set during the WTO conference in Doha in November 2001, and in spite of numerous international agreements signed by WTO members declaring [...]
In both Germany and France anti-AIDS activists together ask their governments to commit themselves to fighting the epidemic.
The dramatic collapse of the WTO negotiations on the export of generics can easily be explained. For a whole year a number of rich countries had only one objective : to renege on the Doha principle that public health has precedence over commercial interests.
Ce contenu a 22 ans. Merci de lire cette page en gardant son âge et son contexte en tête. As the United States and the European Union are stepping up bilateral pressure on the Trade Ministers of key developing countries, WTO Chairman Sergio Marchi from Canada, is actively extending in the WTO General Council these intimidation […]
At the Ministerial conference in Doha, the Member States of the World Trade Organization committed themselves to solving the problem of the export of generics from producing to non-producing countries by the end of 2002. At the last meeting of the TRIPS Council this year, Nov. 25-27, Pascal Lamy's position will be decisive.
Advocates join Nigerian organizations in call for greater involvement of public health experts, consumers, people living with HIV/AIDS in writing crucial intellectual property bill.
In spite of the commitments of Doha to find a solution to the issue of exportation of generics drugs from producing countries towards those which are unable to produce them, the developed countries are trying to force their way against the sick people of the South.
Following the Intermisterial Conference in DOHA, the WTO member states began before the close of 2002 to try to resolve the outstanding question of exportation of generic drugs by producing countries to countries which do not manufacture these medicines. Almost 40 million people affected by AIDS do not have access to life-saving medicines. And the great [...]
An international coalition of AIDS activists, from Harare to Paris, from Casablanca to Atlanta, from Bangkok to New York, is organizing a global protest movement against Coca-Cola on October 16 and 17, 2002. This coalition has been demanding that Coca-Cola and other multinational corporations in developing countries provide medical treatment for all their workers living with [...]
An international coalition of AIDS activists, from Harare to Paris, from Casablanca to Atlanta, from Bangkok to New York, is organizing a global protest movement against Coca-Cola on October 16 and 17, 2002. This coalition has been demanding that Coca-Cola and other multinational corporations in developing countries provide medical treatment for all their workers living with HIV/AIDS.
