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 AIDS, infectious diseases, and other public health epidemics. Re...

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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], 2003.
Series:	U.S. Congressional Research.
Subjects:	AIDS (Disease) Diseases. Drugs. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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Summary:	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 AIDS, infectious diseases, and other public health epidemics. Reviews contentious issues relative to and potential policy implications of the agreement, including the intellectual property rights of developed country pharmaceutical industries.
Item Description:	Record is based on bibliographic data in ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection (last viewed July 2010). Reuse except for individual research requires license from ProQuest, LLC. CRS Report. Electronic resource.
Physical Description:	1 online resource.