CPT's page on Health Care and the World Health Organization

[Catherine Gavin <cgavin@cptech.org>]

We have created a new page on Health Care, Trade Disputes and the World
Health Organization, wich is attached below.
This page contents information and documents related to the WHA Revised
Drug Strategy.
Beside the text of the WHA Resolution, and CPT and HAI documents, the
Thai tabacco case is a very good example of a case where public health
concerns were taken into account in a GATT trade dispute.


Catherine Gavin



http://www.cptech.org/ip/health/who/
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Catherine Gavin
Consumer Project on Technology
P.O. Box 19367, Washington, DC 20036
cgavin@cptech.org, http://www.cptech.org
202.387.8030; fax 202.234.5176

Title: CPT's page on Health Care and the World Health Organization

Health Care, Trade Disputes, and the World Health Organization

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• The World Health Assembly Resolution on Revised Drug Strategy
  • Text of the WHA Resolution, as discussed during the May 1998 Assembly
  • May 13, 1998 CPT letter to Dr. Stuart Nightingale regarding 1998 World Health Assembly Resolution which discusses TRIPS.
  • May 12, 1998 CPT letter to James McGinchey regarding public health and intellectual property.

• Health Action International Documents
  • Globalization and Pharmaceuticals : Implications for Public Health, a contribution to the Technical Briefing on the Revised Drug Strategy, Geneva, October 13, 1998.
  • Drug Issues Discussion Paper, paper written for WHO-NGO Roundtable on October 9, 1998.

• Helpful related documents
  • The Thai Tabacco Case
    * November 7, 1990 GATT Decision regarding Thailand - Restriction on Importation of and Internal Taxes on Cigarettes
    * Taking on Tabacco Imperialism, Interview with Dr. Hatai Chitanondh, published in the 1997 July/August issue of Multinational Monitor

  • Chapter 8 of the Federal Trade Commission "Anticipating the 21st Century : Competition Policy in the New High-Tech, Global Marketplace, Volume I" Report

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