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The essay "Problem of AIDS in Africa" focuses on the critical analysis of the problem of AIDS in Africa.... AIDS is one of the most devastating health problems that caused death to many people in the world.... Africa is the most affected region in the world.... hellip; Its population constitutes 11% of the world and is home to 60% of people in the world living with HIV....
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However, it has been suggested that these laws undermine public health by tending to put the cost of essential medicines far beyond the reach of those who desperately need it most.... Recent free trade agreements have extended extremely generous patent rights to multinational pharmaceutical companies, and have limited access to generic equivalent drugs.... Without access to the drugs in the treatment of HIV, for example, to combat the spread of the dreaded disease, people from many countries in Africa experiencing an HIV/AIDS pandemic will die in record numbers....
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There are also heightened tensions between public health and international trade as associated with patents and Access to Essential Medicines for incurable or fatal diseases.... As Inayatullah suggests, the study of intended actions is an essential part of international relations theory and outcomes of IR focus on 'values' underlying theory and practice.... However Malcolm seems to go against the traditional interpretation of Hobbes' realistic viewpoints and suggests that Hobbes' theory does make provisions for international law showing why international cooperation is essential within the necessities of an international system....
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(750 words)
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A consensus was reached that the provisions in the WTO having to with patents should be interpreted liberally in favor of the patient, and in favor of granting Access to Essential Medicines.... It has been suggested that these laws undermine public health by tending to put the cost of essential medicines far beyond the reach of those who desperately need it most.... However, it has been suggested that these laws undermine public health by tending to put the cost of essential medicines far beyond the reach of those who desperately need it most....
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Dissertation
The WHO defines essential medicines as “those that satisfy the priority healthcare needs of the population; they should therefore be available at all times in adequate amounts and in appropriate dosage forms, at a price the community can... The WHO activities in the sphere of pharmaceutical preparations are mainly based on the WHO medicines strategy that was adopted on the fifty-fourth World Health Assemble on 21st of May 20012.... This strategy is directed on assistance to governments in providing appropriate life and healthcare protection and improvement through liquidation of the huge difference between the appropriate medicines usage possibilities and reality, thus for millions of people such medicines are absent, unaffordable, unsafe, of bed quality or used in the wrong way....
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Detentions of generic drugs made in India by EU customs authorities, in particular involving the Netherlands, and bound for countries outside of the European Union, such as Brazil and other countries in Latin America, are deemed by India and Brazil in a complaint with the WTO as… violative of EU obligations under international law, and to covenants to which the EU has committed itself and signed, to wit: the GATTs Article V, relating to goods transit freedom passing through GATT signatory countries territories, via global transit routes of the greatest nvenience and efficiency; EU commitments to the TRIPS agreement, relating to the non-creation of trade barriers, where the detentions are deemed to be such trade barriers, with the rights given to patent owners of intellectual property such as drug patents in this case, caused delays that are deemed to be non-fair, non-equitable, full of complications, and are without warrant; the TRIPS Agreement Article 31, Article 6 of which had been threshed out as to the details, relating to access to medications of countries who have no wherewithal to gain access to them internally or through other means than such trade as India offers in the generic drugs in dispute (Ministry of Commerce and Industry; Mara; Saez; New; OseiTutu; Conectas- Human Rights; The Pharmaceutical News; Freedman; Raja; Ruse-Khan; Baker)....
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Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines CAEM (2009) cited too many people are unable to reach for these drugs because of higher prices.... From the paper "AIDS in Africa" it is clear that the aim of the United Nations and the World Health Organization to scale it down to zero remains to be a big challenge to the world....
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"A Role of the Non-Government Organizations" paper examines the development and growth of organizations of civil society or The Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) that came into existence to address the inadequacies of the state and the market, to help address a wide variety of social needs.... hellip; Innovation and creativity in every function including attracting, motivating and retaining talent have to be applied....
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