Publication Topic : Access to Medicines
Letter to the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board re: Submission to PMPRB in response to “Price Increases for Patented Medicines: Discussion Paper”
The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network is pleased to submit herewith material in response to the PMPRB’s recent discussion paper on the question of price increases in Canada for patented medicines.
Letter to Indian President APJ Abdul Kalam re: Patent (Amendment) Bill 2005
“We write to you to express our deepest concern that recent amendments to India’s patent legislation will lead to unnecessary suffering and death for millions of people in your country and in many others, particularly in the developing world. We urge you to send the Patent (Amendment) Bill 2005 back to Parliament for reconsideration, so … Read more
HIV/AIDS Policy and Law Review 9(3) December 2004
FEATURES Still underground: searching for progress in realizing the human rights of women in prostitution Steps forward, backward, and sideways: Canada’s bill on exporting generic pharmaceuticals EDITORIAL High time to vastly scale up action on human rights CANADIAN NEWS Ontario: Police disclose HIV status of accused under Police Services Act BC: Campaign launched to protect … Read more
Steps forward, backward, and sideways: Canada’s bill on exporting generic pharmaceuticals – HIV/AIDS Policy and Law Review 9(3)
This article is the second in a series tracing the evolution of Canada’s legislation. It reviews the developments leading up to the adoption of Bill C-9 in its final form, and analyzes its positive and negative aspects. Hopefully, other advocates can learn from this experience and other countries can avoid replicating the negative aspects as … Read more
Letter to Prime Minister Paul Martin re: Cancellation of the Debts of the Poorest Countries
“Perhaps more than any other G7 leader, you are aware of the importance of debt cancellation for impoverished countries, and the failures of past strategies to address the debt issue. Despite important gains secured by current debt relief strategies, poor countries still spend more on debt service than on health and education. Countries in Africa … Read more