The right to health, the TRIPS agreement and the public health safeguards to encourage the universal access to essential medicines

The privileges arising from patent protection on pharmaceutical products often prevent the full realization of the right to health, especially in developing countries with scarce resources. This thesis first identifies the international agreements that have established the right to health in interna...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: St-Martin, Frédéric
Other Authors: Knoppers, Bartha Maria
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: 2008
Subjects:
WTO
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1866/2403