1st Edition
International Public Health Patients' Rights vs. the Protection of Patents
By Yves Beigbeder
Copyright 2004
188 Pages
by
Routledge
187 Pages
by
Routledge
187 Pages
by
Routledge
Also available as eBook on:
This perceptive book highlights the need for cooperation between major organisations - whether intergovernmental, commercial or nongovernmental - to ensure developing countries have access to affordable medicines and vaccines, in spite of their different mandates and interests. Yves Beigbeder reviews specific areas of international public health issues and programmes from the vantage point of one... Read more
Contents: Introduction. Part I: The United Nations and the World Health Organization: United Nations organizations and business; The World Health Organization and business. Part II: Setting International Public Health Policy; The promotion of breastfeeding; Essential drugs and the pharmaceutical industry; The global HIV/AIDS epidemic. Part III: Public-Private Partnerships for Health: Controlling onchocerciasis; The eradication of poliomyelitis; Fighting malaria and tuberculosis; Vaccines and immunization. Part IV: Fighting the Industry: Tobacco, the perfect 'foe'. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Yves Beigbeder
