Network for Monitoring the Impact of Globalization and TRIPS on Access to Medicines, Meeting Report, 19-21 February 2001, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand - Health Economics and Drugs Series No. 011
(2002; 67 pages)

Índice de contenido

1. Introduction
	Steering Committee
	Acknowledgements
2. Highlights of opening address of Dr Supachai Panitchpakdi
3. ¹Globalization, TRIPS and Access to Pharmaceuticals
	A new era in global trade
	WTO Agreements
	Implementation and dispute settlement
	Key requirements of the TRIPS Agreement
		Patent protection
		Rights conferred
		Transitional arrangements
		Public health and TRIPS
		Patentability
		Generic drugs
		Compulsory licensing
		Parallel imports
		TRIPS-plus provisions
		Non-WTO Members
		Evaluating impacts of trade agreements
	WHO Perspectives on Access to Drugs
		Access to health is a human right
		Patents are an effective stimulator of research and development
		Affordability of essential drugs is a public health priority
		Countries must develop informed approaches to health and trade
4. Further Reading
5. Template of selected model indicators for studying the impact of globalization and TRIPS on access to medicines
6. Selected indicators for studying the impact of globalization and TRIPS on access to medicines
	Respondent data
	Contents
		I. Definitions used in the template**
		II. Trends in total pharmaceutical consumption
		III. Health care coverage
		IV. Structure of public and private pharmaceutical prices
		V. Regulations relating to intellectual property rights protection and marketing authorization
		VI. Prices of pharmaceutical products
		VII. Market share of domestic and foreign firms
		VIII. Regulation of pharmaceutical consumption - A stakeholder analysis
7. The Collaborating Centres

Network for Monitoring the Impact of Globalization and TRIPS on Access to Medicines, Meeting Report, 19-21 February 2001, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand - Health Economics and Drugs Series No. 011

Note to the reader

The harmonized model of selected indicators included in this document represents an historical snapshot of the network’s endeavours to fulfil the mandate of the World Health Assembly in resolution WHA52.19 on the Revised Drug Strategy. It should be noted that these indicators are a work in progress. As such, the network is aware that the template does not yet contain indicators to monitor the impact of expanded intellectual property protections on the development of drugs for neglected diseases. Initial field tests by the Collaborating Centres should help identify any major problems with the indicator template: data that is not accessible, unclear or problematic methodologies for data collection, unclear definitions. After initial field testing, the network’s steering committee will review and revise the template as appropriate. After this initial revision, it will be important for the basic indicators to remain constant to ensure data consistency across time; but the steering committee will work to continuously clarify and revise the template based on accumulated experience. In addition, the WHO Collaborating Centre for Health Economics and Drug Policies in London is currently writing a manual for using the template.

This document is not a policy paper but a draft framework to collect data for further analysis. Comments are welcome.

This document is not a formal publication of the World Health Organization (WHO), and all rights are reserved by the Organization. The document may, however, be freely reviewed, abstracted, reproduced and translated, in part or in whole, but not for sale nor for use in conjunction with commercial purposes.

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This report consists of a collection of documents including a brief introduction, opening remarks, WHO perspectives on globalization and access to pharmaceuticals, a template of selected model indicators, and plans of actions from participating WHO Collaborating Centres.