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WHO Members Near Deal On IP, Innovation And Public Health, With Key Question

By Intellectual Property Watch

Some five years after setting a mandate to address barriers faced by poor countries in accessing needed medicines, World Health Organization members are near agreement on a strategy and plan of action. But a key question remains on WHO involvement in a possible treaty on biomedical research and development for diseases disproportionately affecting developing nations, and the WHO secretariat is facing accusations that the process has not been amply inclusive.

Full post as published by Intellectual Property Watch on May 21, 2009 (boomark / email).