{"id":701,"date":"2007-04-18T11:30:48","date_gmt":"2007-04-18T11:30:48","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2022-09-25T21:32:06","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T01:32:06","slug":"getting-the-regime-right-brief-to-the-house-of-commons-standing-committee-on-industry-science-and-technology-regarding-canadas-access-to-medicines-regime","status":"publish","type":"publication22","link":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/getting-the-regime-right-brief-to-the-house-of-commons-standing-committee-on-industry-science-and-technology-regarding-canadas-access-to-medicines-regime\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting the Regime Right &#8211; Brief to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology regarding Canada&#8217;s Access to Medicines Regime"},"content":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s Access to Medicines Regime is not delivering on the country\u2019s pledge to help developing countries get affordable medicines. The Canadian HIV\/AIDS Legal Network recommends a number of changes that will help fix the current, flawed Regime.<\/p>\n<p>Our central recommendation would replace the existing process for obtaining a compulsory licence with something considerably more streamlined and user-friendly \u2014 and hence more likely to be effective \u2014 while respecting Canada\u2019s obligations as a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO).<\/p>\n<p>We also recommend a number of additional reforms that would eliminate some of the unnecessary and counterproductive features currently hindering the efficacy of the Regime; some of these changes would be moot if the compulsory licensing mechanism we recommend were to be adopted, while others are relevant to whichever mechanism appears in Canada\u2019s law.<br \/>\n<!-- JCPA, TRIPS, Jean Chr\u00e9tien Pledge to Africa Act, Bill C-9, CAMR, Canada's Access to Medicine's Regime, Patent Act, Food and Drugs Act --><p class=\"download-link-button\"><a class=\"download-link en\" title=\"Getting the Regime Right \u2013 Brief to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology regarding Canada\u2019s Access to Medicines Regime\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/download\/11105\/?tmstv=1777467643\" rel=\"nofollow\">\r\n\tDownload<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"publication_topics":[145],"publication_type":[170],"publication_language":[184,185],"class_list":["post-701","publication22","type-publication22","status-publish","hentry","publication_topics-access-to-medicines","publication_type-advocacy","publication_language-english","publication_language-french"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22\/701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/publication22"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22\/701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20979,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22\/701\/revisions\/20979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication_topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_topics?post=701"},{"taxonomy":"publication_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_type?post=701"},{"taxonomy":"publication_language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_language?post=701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}