TRIPS AND PUBLIC HEALTH
Chapter 13
Access to Medicines and Public PolicySafeguards under TRIPS
THE HEALTH NEEDS OF PEOPLE IN SOUTH ANDSOUTHEAST ASIA
It needs to be underscored that access to medicines is a means to an end and not an end in itself. The end is health for all. It is therefore very important not to discuss access to medicines in isolation, but in the wider context of health for all, which is our final goal.
Poverty is the deadliest disease of all and the commonest cause of ill-health in the world. The biological manifestations of this socio-economic disease are referred to as ‘diseases of poverty’ and are the common communicable diseases. The consequences are very low standards of health characterized by unacceptably ...
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