[Ip-health] Fwd: Oxfam statement at the IGWG

[Michelle Childs]

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> Oxfam Statement to the Inter Governmental Working Group
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> November 8, 2008
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> In the middle of this week-long negotiation, we have to keep our
> eyes focused on the: 2 billion people who lack regular access to
> lifesaving medicines, the doctors struggling to find appropriate
> medicines for children with HIV and TB because the medicines do not
> exist, or the family who has to make hard choices of who receives
> treatment for urgent health problems.
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> This is not the time for  self interest but the time for bold
> leadership to put public health at the center of this international
> debate.  It is time to look for additional, alternative and
> complementary incentive models to the current intellectual property
> system, which for too long has failed to deliver what poor people
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> This can and should include a treaty to scale up research and
> development for new medicines.  Countries negotiate treaties on all
> issues, many of far less important than innovation and access to
> medicines.  Some countries are currently negotiating an anti-
> counterfeiting treaty.  Given the urgency of innovation and access,
> Oxfam believes that countries can at least take a first step this
> week.
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> Oxfam expects any new strategy to be fully financed.  All countries
> must contribute according to their means.   The level of financing
> should be in proportion to the size of the problem.  Countries that
> sign this strategy must deliver resources.
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> We must not leave this negotiation without a clear plan of securing
> innovation and access to medicines for people in developing countries.
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Michelle Childs
Head of European Affairs
Knowledge Ecology International
michelle.childs@keionline.org