On the 30th of August, just before the
negotiating teams at the WTO in Geneva
went back to their countries to prepare
for the ministerial meeting at Cancun,
the deadlock over intellectual property
and public health was finally broken.
The TRIPs Council agreed on legal changes
that are officially supposed to make it
easier for poorer countries to import
cheaper generics made under compulsory
licensing if they are unable to manufacture
the medicines themselves.
September
9, 2003.
|
|
|
|
This Document is in Adobe
Acrobat format and would
need a PDF reader to
view it. |
|
|
View/
Download the
full texst in PDF format |
|
if
you have problem
opening the file, right click
on hyperlink and select "SaveTarget
as" to save
the file on your hard drive. |
|
Size:401
Kb
App. Download Time:
15 min @ 28kbps |
|
|
|
|
Click below
to get Adobe
Acrobat Reader, a free software
to view and print Adobe Portable
Document Format (PDF) files. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|