1st Edition
Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines in Africa A Regional Framework for Access
By Olasupo Owoeye
Copyright 2019
290 Pages
by
Routledge
290 Pages
by
Routledge
290 Pages
by
Routledge
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A major target of Goal 3 of the Sustainable Development Goals adopted by the United Nations in 2015 is the elimination of ‘the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and neglected tropical diseases’ and combating ‘hepatitis, water-borne diseases and other communicable diseases’. Intellectual property (IP) has been identified as one of the factors impeding access to affordable medicines in... Read more
1: Introduction; 2: The TRIPS Compulsory Licensing Regime and Access to Medicines; 3: Compulsory Licensing and Access to Medicines in Africa; 4: The TRIPS Regime for Test Data Protection and Access to Medicines; 5: The Exhaustion Doctrine, Parallel Trade and Public Health; 6: Pharmaceutical Patents and the Obligation to Protect Health; 7: Patents for Pharmaceuticals and the Human Right to Development; 8: Regional Trade Agreements, TRIPS Plus Provisions and the African Access to Medicines Conundrums; 9: Free Trade and Economic Collaboration as Paradigms for Access to Medicines; 10: Index
Biography
Olasupo Owoeye, LL.B, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.
