Develop a global partnership for development
Target
Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system
Target
Address the special needs of the least developed countries
Target
Address the special needs of landlocked countries and small island developing states
Target
Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing countries through national and international measures in order to make debt sustainable in the long term
Target
In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries
Health indicator
- Proportion of population with access to affordable essential drugs on a sustainable basis
Target
In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications
Recommended reading
- Working together for better health
- ( Department for International Development, UK , 2007)
- This paper sets out DFID's strategy to support developing countries in improving the health of their people and reaching the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The paper outlines three major challen...
- Access to medicines at risk across the globe: what to watch out for in free trade agreements with the United States
- ( Access to Essential Medicines Campaign, MSF , 2004)
- The United States (US) is using bilateral trade agreements to restrict the availability of low-cost medicines to developing countries, according to this briefing paper from Médecins Sans Frontiéres (M...
- Addressing global health inequities: an open licensing approach for university innovations
- ( A. Kapczynski; S. Chaifetz; Z. Katz; Y. Benkler / Berkeley Technology Law Journal, University of Calafornia, Berkeley , 2005)
- This article, published in the Berkeley Technology Law Journal, demonstrates the potential of public sector institutions, particularly universities, to eliminate the barriers that patents pose on acce...
