[Ip-health] CAFTA & access to meds: transcript from journalist teleconference

[Sharonann Lynch]

The transcript from the December 8 Health GAP-sponsored journalist
teleconference on CAFTA and its impact on access to medicines is
available online along with other resources & background information
at:
http://www.healthgap.org/camp/ftaa.html#resources

Speakers on the conference call included:
* Dr. Ruben Mayorga, Director, Organizacion de Apoyo a una Sexualidad
Integral frente al Sida (OASIS) and Advocacy Coordinator, the Central
American Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (REDCA+)
* Robert Weissman, Co-director, Essential Action
* Alain Rias, Field Coordinator, MSF Honduras, Doctors Without
Borders/M=E9decins Sans Fronti=E8res (MSF)
* Asia Russell, Health GAP, Director of International Policy

Speakers addressed these and other questions:
-- How will the intellectual property rules the U.S. is fighting for
in the CAFTA effect access to medicines in the region and Latin
America as a whole?
-- What is the current status of the AIDS treatment access crisis in
Central and South America and the Caribbean?
-- What is the impact of generic competition on the prices of AIDS
medicines in Latin America?
-- What impact does the outcome of the Miami FTAA Ministerial have on
current CAFTA negotiations?