We began to research for this book in 2000, with the idea that we might contribute to the search for solutions to the global HIV/AIDS pandemic by c- bining perspectives from different disciplines. Much has happened in the interv- ing years. First, the severity of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa – and the threat it posed for many others regions of the world – led to a movement among several countries to correct the imbalance between producers and users of ph- maceutical products. This effort produced a clarification of the right of gove- ments to produce generic medicine under compulsory licenses and an amendment of the World Trade Organization’s TRIPS Agreement to allow exports of generic medicines from one WTO Member to another. In 2007, the amended rules were put into practice, with Canada authorizing the export of generic antiretroviral drugs to Rwanda. However, at the same time, global patent laws have been undermined due to regulatory capture, most notably in free trade agreements and through political pressure on countries like Thailand to not to exercise their right to issue compulsory licenses for pharmaceutical products. Second, the amount of money available for the treatment and prevention of HIV/AIDS has increased dramatically, with the establishment of the World Bank Multi-Country HIV/AIDS Program for Africa (MAP), the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), among other funding initiatives.
... in December 1986 to conduct “a worldwide survey of legislative strategies to combat AIDS.”3 Other important staff included Jeff Harris, Jock Copland, Tony Meyer, Bob Hogan, and a few others, many of whom had strong connections to ...
Intended to serve the information needs of all professionals involved in AIDS research and care, this volume's accessibility and clarity of writing make it highly suitable for the general reader as well.
Protecting Childhood in the AIDS Pandemic provides lessons from experts around the world on how to transform the outcomes of children affected by HIV/AIDS.
The AIDS Pandemic explores the ways in which HIV/AIDS has, and continues to transform the wide range of related disciplines it touches.
Some scholars argue that this ambiguity has meant that coloured people have no identifiable culture. ethnic ... in Salt river to the rural coloured communities in the wine lands of Paarl and Worcester (Petrus & isaacs-martin, 2011).
In this collection of essays, Lawrence O. Gostin, an internationally recognized scholar of AIDS law and policy, confronts the most pressing and controversial issues surrounding AIDS in America and around the world.
A legal examination of global health governance issues relating to access to essential medicines for AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
However, most infected individuals live in the poorest regions of the world, where ART is virtually nonexistent. The consequent death toll in these regionsâ€"especially sub-Saharan Africaâ€"is begetting economic and social collapse.
After that experience, Evans declared that he would spend his life ending extreme poverty. As cofounder of the advocacy organization Global Poverty Project and founder of Global Citizen, he's stuck with that vision ever since— cleverly ...
Yet the program has persevered and made an enormous improvement in millions of lives. This is the story of true change and what it takes to make it"--