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UN Special Rapporteur: IP In Health Helping Those With Most Means, Less Need

By Intellectual Property Watch

Nearly two billion people lack access to the medical care they need, and in the developing world those who do manage to have access are overwhelmingly paying out-of-pocket, often triggering a fall into poverty. The monopoly-making power of patents to drive the cost of medicines beyond affordability is a significant contributor to this disturbing trend, says a report of the United Nations rapporteur on the right to health presented at last week?s Human Rights Council.

Full post as published by Intellectual Property Watch on June 16, 2009 (boomark / email).