[Ip-health] Excerpt of WHO DG Lee's speech to the 57th WHA

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Geneva, Switzerland
18 May 2004

Address by the Director-General



http://www.who.int/dg/lee/speeches/2004/wha57/en/

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In March, the Government of Mozambique issued a compulsory licence for
manufacturing a triple combination of antiretroviral drugs to meet
national needs. In doing so, they became the first African country to take
this important step in implementing the Doha Declaration. Canada was the
first country to propose changes to its patent legislation to put into
practice a decision made by the World Trade Organization in August 2003,
allowing exports of generic medicines to countries with insufficient
pharmaceutical manufacturing capacity. I welcome the announcement made
last week that this legislation has been adopted.