[Ip-health] RESEND with correction : Preparing for WHO IGWG? - here are some useful documents.

[Ellen T HOEN]

Moderators can you post this one and not the previous? I had the web links
mixed up.



                      Ellen T HOEN
                                               Pour :    e-drug@healthnet.org, Ip-health@lists.essential.org
                      09/18/2007 02:43         cc :      (ccc : Ellen T HOEN/PAR/U/MSF)
                      PM                       Objet :   Preparing for WHO IGWG? - here are some useful documents.




Dear All,

With  those of you who are preparing a submission to the WHO public hearing
for the Intergovermental Working Group on Public Health, Innovation and
Intellectual  Property (IGWG)  I want to share  2 very useful documents I
came across and that may not have  had  sufficient attention on the lists:

1) a Joint publication by the South Center and WHO titled: The  use of the
flexibilities in TRIPS by developing countries; can they increase access to
medicines?

Available at:

http://www.southcentre.org/publications/SouthPerspectiveSeries/TheUseOfFlexibilitiesInTripsFinal.pdf

2) Guidelines for the examination of pharmaceutical patents: developing a
public health perspective. by Unctad, ICTSD and WHO.
This is a working paper which is open for comments. Available at:

http://www.iprsonline.org/resources/docs/Correa_Patentability%20Guidelines.pdf


It is very encouraging to see WHO's involvement in these  type of documents
and guidelines. And this should perhaps be highlighted during the IGWG
process and certainly encouraged.

Note that the deadline for submissions to the on-line public hearing on
Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual  Property is  30 September.

You can find more details here:

http://www.who.int/phi/public_hearings/second/en/index.html

Kind regards,

Ellen 't Hoen


______________________________________

Ellen F.M. 't Hoen LL.M.
Director Policy Advocacy

Medecins sans Frontieres
Access to Essential Medicines Campaign
8, rue Saint - Sabin
75544 Paris cedex 11
France

tel: + 33 1 4021 2836
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e-mail: ellen.t.hoen@paris.msf.org
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