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Formula For Fairness: Patient Rights Before Patent Rights by Oxfam is a document available to read on EtoBox.

The agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) – the new twenty-year patent regime that the World Trade Organization (WTO) requires all member states to implement – is likely to keep prices of vital new medicines higher than they otherwise would be and thereby exacerbate the vast health disparities between rich and poor countries. Meanwhile, accusations of insensitivity to the plight of the world’s poor have increasingly put the pharmaceutical industry on the defensive. Again

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Oxfam

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