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Trade in Health Services: Global, Regional and Country Perspectives

This publication explores issues related to Trade and Health services and WTO's GATS Agreement. Papers were presented at the Inter-Regional Meeting on Health and Trade: Towards a Millennium Round, and the book includes general conclusions and recommendations from the meeting. (Susan Pasquariella, Pan American Health Organization, September 2003)

http://www.paho.org/English/HDP/HDD/trade.htm

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Claiming our space: Using the flexibilities in the TRIPS agreement to protect access to medicines

In 2001 the Doha Declaration on TRIPS and Public Health provided a landmark political commitment reaffirming the option for World Trade Organisation (WTO) member states to use all flexibilities provided in the TRIPS Agreement to ensure access to affordable medicines, and to prevent patent monopolies stopping access to medicines where they are needed for public health. By 2006, many of these flexibilities are not yet exploited in Africa, despite the massive demand for cheap medicines. This brief outlines the opportunities that African countries have to use these flexibilities and the legal and other changes needed for this. It also outlines the challenges that we may face and the measures to respond to them. (Equinet, 2006)

http://www.equinetafrica.org/bibl/docs/POLBRF16trade.pdf

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