POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Least Developed Countries, Doha Declaration, Trips Agreement
Document Summary
Ngo advocacy for health public policy: richard elliot. Case study: canadian hiv/aids legal network & canada"s access to medicines. Today: question of intellectual property and wto, in regards to medicines and the role of civil society responding to the issue. Access to treatment in developing countries canada"s access to. Medicine regime: the issue: patents and access to affordable medicines, health as commodity vs. health as human right. States have obligations to make access to health, however other actors in gov. " see health as a commodity. Hiv & arv: global situation: of people get access to drug needed to treat hiv the other await death, south africa being affected most, in 2009: Patent ctrl: dominating in select west and asian countries: same as the wealth ctrl, knowledge property right held in one place. International covenant on econ, social and cultural rights (1976) Health as a hr (who) vs. health as commodity (wto trips)
