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South African Public Health Experts Urge Countries To Use TRIPS To Produce Generic Drugs, IPS Reports
South African public health experts from Medecins San Frontieres (MSF) South Africa and the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) "are calling on governments to use legally available mechanisms to promote the production or import of generic drugs in their countries," Inter Press Service reports. The article examines how countries can alter their patent acts under the Doha Declaration -- a World Trade Organization declaration on the Agreement on Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) and Public Health that "exists to ensure that patents do not undermine the ability of countries to achieve the right to health" -- "to access generic versions of otherwise patented medicines in cases where prices are prohibitively expensive, the organizations say."
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