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WTO, Intellectual Property Rights, and the Access to Medicines Controversy.

Provides background on Aug. 2003 World Trade Organization agreement authorizing developing countries to issue compulsory licenses to third-country producers to manufacture affordable, generic versions of patented drugs needed to combat HIV/AIDS, infectious diseases, and other public health epidemics...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service, ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2007.
Series:U.S. Congressional Research.
Subjects:
Diseases.
Pharmaceutical industry.
Developing countries.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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