The global politics of pharmaceutical monopoly power
Subtitle: drug patents, access, innovation and the application of the WTO Doha Declaration on TRIPS and public health
By: Ellen F.M. 't Hoen
Contributors: Open Society Institute
Publisher: AMB Publishers
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Netherlands
Language: eng
Number of pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9789079700066
Subjects: Pharmaceutical industry; Moral and ethical aspects; Government policy; Drugs; Patents; Law and legislation; HIV (Viruses); Treatment; Public health; Drug Industry; Ethics; Essential Drugs; Supply & distribution; Developing Countries; Health Services Accessibility; Legislation & jurisprudence; Drug Legislation; Economics; Patents as Topic; Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
Description: In The Global Politics of Pharmaceutical Monopoly Power, researcher and global advocate Ellen 't Hoen explains how new global rules for pharmaceutical patenting impact access to medicines in the developing world. The book gives an account of the current debates on intellectual property, access to medicines, and medical innovation, and provides historical context that explains how the current system emerged. This book supports major policy changes in the management of pharmaceutical patents and the way medical innovation is financed in order to protect public health and, in particular, promote access to essential medicines for all. The Open Society Institute provided support to translate this report into Russian.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 99-111).

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Table of contents: title: Executive Summary; title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. Key IP-related issues in access to new essential medicines; title: 2.1 Debates on access to medicines and the TRIPS Agreement; title: 2.1.1 Brief history of TRIPS; title: 2.1.2 Scope, objective and principles of the TRIPS Agreement; title: 3. History of the debate on intellectual property protection and pharmaceuticals; title: 3.1 US Senate investigations into pharmaceuticals and anti-trust; title: 3.2 Early debates at the World Health Assembly; title: 4. The Doha Declaration on TRIPS and Public Health; title: 4.1 Negotiations on TRIPS and Public Health at the WTO; title: 4.2 From Seattle to Doha; title: 4.2.1 Trade dispute in South Africa: Big Pharma vs. Nelson Mandela; title: 4.2.2 Trade dispute in Brazil: The Brazilian AIDS Programme; title: 4.2.3 Trade dispute in Thailand; title: 4.2.4 Cipla's announcement of 1 USD a day ARV treatment.; title: 4.2.5 Protest on university campuses in the US; title: 4.2.6 World Health Assembly (WHA); title: 4.2.7 Attention to the AIDS medicines crisis; title: 4.2.8 Changing landscape; title: 4.3 Why the Doha Declaration came to pass; title: 4.4 Provisions of the Doha Declaration; title: 4.5 Paragraph 6 of the Doha Declaration; title: 5. Practical implementation of the Doha Declaration on TRIPS and Public Health; title: 5.1 History of compulsory licensing; title: 5.2 Examples of compulsory licensing on medicines in industrialized countries; title: 5.2.1 Canada's pharmaceutical compulsory licensing regime; title: 5.2.2 UK Crown Use; title: 5.2.3 US Government use of pharmaceutical patents; title: 5.2.4 Other recent compulsory licenses; title: 5.3 Use of TRIPS flexibilities by middle-income developing countries (medicines producing and exporting countries); title: 5.3.1 Brazil; title: 5.3.2 Thailand; title: 5.3.3 Malaysia; title: 5.3.4 South Africa; title: 5.3.5 Kenya; title: 5.3.6 India; title: 5.4 Medicines importing countries; title: 5.4.1 Results; title: 5.5 International and multilateral donors; title: 5.5.1 The Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria; title: 5.5.2 The World Bank; title: 5.5.3 UNITAID; title: 5.5.4 The US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR); title: 5.6 Summary; title: 6. Attempts to limit the scope and use of the Doha Declaration; title: 6.1 US objectives for IP in bilateral and regional trade agreements; title: 6.1.1 Push back in the US; title: 6.2. Other TRIPS-plus developments; title: 6.2.1 European Commission; title: 6.2.2 A legal challenge of TRIPS flexibilities: Novartis and the Indian Patents Act.; title: 7. Rationale for the pharmaceutical patent system; title: 7.1 Patents and innovation; title: where is the evidence?; title: 7.2 Patents and drug development for 'neglected' and 'most neglected' diseases; title: 8. Conclusions and recommendations; title: 8.1 Access: towards pro-access management of IP; title: 8.1.1 Routine compulsory licensing and government use in procurement; title: 8.1.2 Licences of right; title: 8.1.3 Extend the 2016 deadline for LDCs; title: 8.1.4 Patent pools; title: 8.2 Access and innovation; title: 8.2.1 Change the incentive system for health R&D; title: 8.2.2 Not-for profit drug development; title: 8.2.3 Novartis R&D fund proposal; title: 8.2.4 Prize model; title: 8.2.5 The Medical Innovation Prize Act 2005; title: 8.2.6 A proposal to solve the drug price crisis in the US; title: 8.2.7 R&D treaty; title: 8.3 Conclusion 98