HIV Drugs and Compulsory Licensing
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At the AIDS and Essential Medicines and Compulsory Licensing Meeting
that took place in Geneva, March 26-27, 1999, around 135 participants
discussed:
- the nature of access problems for essential drugs and medical tech-
nologies, particularly in developing countries;
- related international laws and compulsory licensing;
- practical issues relating to compulsory licensing of HIV-related
drugs in developing countries.
Over the coming days and weeks the presentations from this meeting
will be disseminated through the 'Treatment Access Discussion Forum'.
The participants in the Geneva meeting have also joined the forum,
and it is hoped this will provide an opportunity for many of the
ideas and information surrounding HIV/AIDS drugs and the compulsory
licensing issue to be shared among all forum members.
If you would like to join this discussion, send an e-mail to:
<treatment-access@hivnet.ch>
with the word 'join' in the subject line.
Or go to:
http://www.hivnet.ch:8000/join/
and select the Access to Treatment Discussion Forum.
Tim France
mailto:tfran@hivnet.ch
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