WHO Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, Innovation and Public Health
Another practical initiative assessing the possible negative implications of IP, the WHO Commission hopes to report in April 2006.
The Dec 2005 report of the Secretariat notes the view of the Commission that innovation in public health should cover not only R and D per se, but also delivery of and access to the results of such work; it also notes the difficulties, well rehearsed in activist literature, of health needs in developing countries, which often cannot be sustained by a local innovation cycle. Finally, it is interesting to note the reference in the report to both public awareness of the inequities of this, and the role of the WTO and TRIPS in addressing it.
The final report is again awaited with interest, with its proposals on how to foster innovation, and produce sustainable frameworks for encouraging this on an ongoing basis - more practical roles for human rights and competition law and policy?
The Dec 2005 report of the Secretariat notes the view of the Commission that innovation in public health should cover not only R and D per se, but also delivery of and access to the results of such work; it also notes the difficulties, well rehearsed in activist literature, of health needs in developing countries, which often cannot be sustained by a local innovation cycle. Finally, it is interesting to note the reference in the report to both public awareness of the inequities of this, and the role of the WTO and TRIPS in addressing it.
The final report is again awaited with interest, with its proposals on how to foster innovation, and produce sustainable frameworks for encouraging this on an ongoing basis - more practical roles for human rights and competition law and policy?
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