Access to Essential Medicines, TRIPS and the Patent System
2017
This chapter, from the World Health Organization (WHO) report Advancing the Right to Health: The Vital Role of Law, examines how governments can ensure universal access to affordable essential medicines, a core obligation in fulfilling the right to health. It outlines the importance of developing a national medicines policy including essential medicines; creating a national procurement strategy for medications that addresses corruption and eliminates tariffs; focusing on the production of essential medicines; and leveraging flexibilities within the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of International Property Rights (TRIPS) to reduce prices of essential medicines that are under patent.
Access to Essential Medicines, TRIPS and the Patent System
Source:
Chapter 15 – Access to Essential Medicines, TRIPS and the Patent System. Advancing the Right to Health: The Vital Role of Law. World Health Organization 2017. https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/252815.