[Ip-health] Doha plus 5 Programme Lunch meeting Geneva

[Ellen T HOEN]

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=E2=80=93     A Lunch Discussion =E2=80=93=0D
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                  November 14, 2006, from 12:00  to 14:30=0D
                 At theInternational Conference Centre (CICG)=0D
                3rd floor, Room 5 - Rue de Varemb=C3=A9 15, Geneva=0D
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                 Access to Medicines Five Years After Doha=0D
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                Where Are We, and What is the Way Forward?=0D
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Five years ago the Doha Declaration on TRIPS and Public Health  was adopted=
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at the 2001 WTO Ministerial meeting in Qatar.  The objective of the Doha=0D
Declaration was to ensure that trade rules did not stand in the way of=0D
access to essential medicines.  Five years down the road, it=E2=80=99s time=
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stock and examine whether Doha has held its promise to =E2=80=9C=E2=80=A6pr=
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health and (=E2=80=A6) promote access to medicines for all,=E2=80=9D and wh=
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are for moving forward.=0D
Please RSVP confirming your attendance to: mai.do@msf.org=0D
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Chair    Dalindyebo Shabalala, Center for International Environmental Law=
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Speakers   Adrian Otten, World Trade Organization=0D
           Representative from Kenya, TBC=0D
                 Guilherme de Aguiar Patriota, Mission of Brazil=0D
                 Ellen =E2=80=98t Hoen, Campaign for Access to Essential Me=
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                 Sangeeta Shashikant, Third World Network=0D
                 Thiru Balasubranamiam, Consumer Project on technology=0D
          Howard Zucker, World Health Organization=0D
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