Analyzing the impact of trade and investment agreements on pharmaceutical policy: provisions, pathways and potential impacts.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Trade and investment agreements negotiated after the World Trade Organization's Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) have included increasingly elevated protection of intellectual property rights along with an expanding array of rules impacting many aspects of pharmaceutical policy. Despite the large body of literature on intellectual property and access to affordable medicines, the ways in which other provisions in trade agreements can affect pharmaceutical policy and, in turn, access to medicines have been little studied. There is a need for an analytical framework covering the full range of provisions, pathways, and potential impacts, on which to base future health and human rights impact assessment and research. A framework explo

SUBMITTER: Gleeson D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6882307 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature