[Ip-health] Letter from 12 U.S. Congress members to USTR Representative Susan Schwab: US Trade Policies Restrict Access to Life Saving Medicines

[Thiru Balasubramaniam]

Please click on the PDF link to see the letter from the following 12
Members of the U.S. Congress to USTR Representative Susan Schwab:

Henry Waxman, Jim McDermott, Tom Allen, Lloyd Dogget, Janice D.
Schakowsky, Pete Stark,  Diane DeGette,  Chris Van Hollen,  Barbara
Lee,  Earl Blumenauer, John Lewis and Rahm Emanuel.


http://www.oversight.house.gov/Documents/20070312150354-57129.pdf


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Sunday, March 11, 2007
US Trade Policies Restrict Access to Life Saving Medicines

Rep. Waxman and other members write to US Trade Representative Susan
Schwab to express their concern that the US is elevating intellectual
property protection at the expense of public health in recent Free
Trade Agreements with Peru, Colombia and other developing countries.

http://www.oversight.house.gov/Documents/20070312150354-57129.pdf

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Thiru Balasubramaniam
Geneva Representative
Knowledge Ecology International (KEI)
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