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Utilizing the WTO-TRIPS flexibilities on public health at a regional level: A critical review of the east African community framework.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Utilizing the WTO-TRIPS flexibilities on public health at a regional level: A critical review of the east African community framework./
Author:	Wabwire, Joshua.
Description:	86 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 54-06.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International54-06(E).
Subject:	Intellectual property. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=1594680
ISBN:	9781321920383

Utilizing the WTO-TRIPS flexibilities on public health at a regional level: A critical review of the east African community framework.
Wabwire, Joshua.

Utilizing the WTO-TRIPS flexibilities on public health at a regional level: A critical review of the east African community framework. - 86 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 54-06.

Thesis (LLM)--University of Pretoria (South Africa), 2014.

The East African Community (EAC) states recently adopted a policy on utilising the WTOTRIPS flexibilities on public health. The policy spells out a number of flexibilities and the minimum standards thereof to be enacted in domestic legislation. This study critically reviews this policy. In doing this, the study notes that the EAC member states, like most developing states, have very low per capita income levels. The people are too poor to afford expensive medicines. At the same time, these countries are faced with peculiar, region-specific diseases, the so-called 'African diseases.' Already, these diseases have been neglected by foreign pharmaceuticals reluctant to invest in developing medicines for poor markets. There are no established pharmaceuticals in the EAC states.

ISBN: 9781321920383Subjects--Topical Terms:

572975
Intellectual property.

Utilizing the WTO-TRIPS flexibilities on public health at a regional level: A critical review of the east African community framework.
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