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Commission on intellectual property rights, innovation and public health. (2006) Public health innovation and intellectual property rights: report of the commission on intellectual property rights, innovation and public health. Geneva: World Health Organization.

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Aims:

  • Summarize the existing evidence on the prevalence of diseases of public health importance with an emphasis on those that particularly affect poor people and their social and economic impact;
  • Review the volume and distribution of existing research, development and innovation efforts directed at these diseases; Consider the importance and effectiveness of intellectual property regimes and other incentive and funding mechanisms in stimulating research and the creation of new medicines and other products against these diseases;
  • Analyse proposals for improvements to the current incentive and funding regimes, including intellectual property rights, designed to stimulate the creation of new medicines and other products, and facilitate access to them; 
  • Produce concrete proposals for action by national and international stakeholders.
Item Type
Report
Publication Type
International, Report
Date
2006
Call No
GA4,
Pages
228 p.
Publisher
World Health Organization
Corporate Creators
Commission on intellectual property rights, innovation and public health
Place of Publication
Geneva
Keywords
communicable disease, constitutional law, criminal law, form of law, health and disease, HIV infection, law, poverty, property law, public health
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Accession Number
HRB 3831 (Available)
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