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Promoting Access to Medical Technologies and Innovation : Intersections between public health, intellectual property and trade
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Description
This study follows on from the 2002 study entitled WTO Agreements and Public Health: A Joint Study by the WHO and the WTO Secretariat. This earlier study examined the linkages between trade and health policies in general to enable trade officials and health officials to better understand and monitor the effects of their work on each other��s areas of responsibility. This new study updates the material on IP and other trade aspects as they relate toinnovation of, and access to, medical technologies, the areas which have seen most change in the decade since then. The 2002 study remains a useful resource on many issues, such as health services, infectious disease control, food safety and tobacco.