Barcarolo JL, Teixeira M, Munhoz R, Teixeira PR; International Conference on AIDS.
Int Conf AIDS. 2002 Jul 7-12; 14: abstract no. G12482.
Brazilian Ministry of Health, Brasilia - DF, Brazil
ISSUES: 2001 was a landmark year to the international debate surrounding the HIV/AIDS issue. In spite of fierce opposition, developing countries managed to put the issue of access to medicines high in the agenda of several multilateral organizations of universal representation. DESCRIPTION: The 57th Session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights approved, in early April, a milestone resolution acknowledging access to essential medicines, specially AIDS-fighting drugs, is a fundamental human right. A few weeks later, the 54th World Health Assembly, held in May, called the international community to take the necessary steps to make drugs available to all those affected at affordable prices, a major acknowledgement of the special needs of developing countries. In late June, the United National General Assembly Special Session further stressed global collective action is key to reverse the appalling trend of the epidemic worldwide. UNGASS gave momentum to the launching of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, designed to allocate the necessary resources to provide treatment and care for the millions of unassisted patients. It is worth mentioning, at last, the relevance of the 4th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization, held in November, which recognized nothing in its Intellectual Property Rights Agreement must prevent countries from taking measures to protect public health. LESSONS LEARNED: Multilateral organizations can be stages of ultimate importance to forge strategic alliances around policies that would otherwise go unnoticed, as well as to the development of global policies that take into account the concerns of developing countries. RECOMMENDATION: Governments and organized civil society must act to establish global fora for discussing aids timely, in order to foster a more integrated regional articulation and a global response of greater impact.
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Keywords:
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
- Anti-HIV Agents
- Commerce
- Congresses
- Developing Countries
- Disease Outbreaks
- HIV Infections
- Human Rights
- Humans
- Intellectual Property
- Negotiating
- Organizations
- Pharmaceutical Preparations
- Politics
- Public Health
- Public Policy
- United Nations
- World Health
- therapy
Other ID:
UI: 102254873
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