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HIV/AIDS, economics and governance in South Africa: key issues in understanding response. A literature review
Centre for AIDS Development, Research and Evaluation, South Africa, 2002This review of economic research on HIV/AIDS in South Africa states that its aims were: to identify completed and ongoing research conducted on the economic aspects of HIV/AIDS and its implications for governance in South Africaprovide a comprehensive bibliography of literature in the areamake a preliminary assessment of the quality of the existing research, to identify trends andDocumentStakeholder participation in policy on access to genetic resources, traditional knowledge and benefit-sharing. Case studies and recommendations
International Institute for Environment and Development, 2001The third objective of the 1992 Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), requires the benefits derived from the commercial and scientific use of genetic resources to be shared fairly and equitably with countries that provide the resources (often biologically rich countries in the South).DocumentBiopiracy in the Amazon
Amazon Link, 2003This collection of short case studies is produced by Amazon Link with the objective of highlighting the obstacles posed by biopiracy to the development of a sustainable trade in Amazon forest products.Each case study outlines the indigenous use of each forest product, it's perceived economic potential and the patents applied to that product and/or its derivatives.DocumentAgendas on patents
South Centre, 2002This issue of the South Centre Bulletin focuses on patent issues and in particular the WIPO patent agenda. The editor argues that WIPO is re-emerging as an important platform for the development of IP regulation and that developing countries need to engage with them and articulate their concerns as fully as has been the case at the WTO.DocumentImpact of patents on access to HIV/AIDS drugs in developing countries
Center for International Development, Harvard University, 2002This paper uses sales data on HIV/AIDS drugs in a sample of 34 low and middle income countries between 1995 and 1999 to assess empirically the impact of patents on unsubsidized access to a new drug therapy.There can be two possible effects of patents on access to new drugs in developing countries.DocumentFarmers’ rights and intellectual property rights : reconciling conflicting concepts
University of Hohenheim, Germany, 2002This paper discusses the different concepts of Farmers’ Rights and Intellectual Property Rights and their impacts on plant genetic resources.DocumentProtection of indigenous knowledge and possible methods of sharing benefits with local communities
International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2002The first part of ths background paper to the Multi-stakeholder Dialogue on Trade, Intellectual Property and Biological and Genetic Resources in Asia gives an overview of indigenous knowledge in the context of the formal IPR regimes.DocumentThe emerging global regime on genetic resources: its implications for local communities
World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2002This briefing paper gives an overview of the emerging global regime on genetic resources, with a special emphasis on its implications for local and impoverished communities worldwide.DocumentImplications of WTO/TRIPS in East Africa : with special emphasis on pharmaceutical patents
Economic and Social Research Foundation, Tanzania, 2002What has the impact of the TRIPs agreement been in East Africa? This study examines how patent protection relates to the overall promotion and protection of human rights, and socio-economic rights, in particular. The author concentrates on pharmaceutical patent protection and the new life saving drugs that should be available for treatment of HIV/AIDS in the region.