Publication Topic : Access to Medicines
Bill C-393: Key features and compliance with Canada’s WTO obligations (October 2010)
Complementing the Legal Network’s earlier brief, this document outlines in summary form the key issues and the provisions of WTO law that permit Canada to simplify the current CAMR as proposed by Bill C-393, while complying with its legal obligations as at WTO Member, and in some instances, making CAMR even more consistent with TRIPS … Read more
Making CAMR Work: Streamlining Canada’s Access to Medicines Regime – Brief to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology regarding Bill C-393 (October 2010)
Canada’s Access to Medicines Regime (CAMR) is not delivering on Parliament’s pledge to help developing countries get affordable medicines. The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network endorses the amendments proposed in Bill C-393 that will help fix the current, flawed Regime.