The World Health Assembly “global strategy and plan of action on public health, innovation and intellectual property,” is now online.
The document, WHA61.21, has been called “the most important document since [the] Doha” Declaration on IP and public health. Said by World Health Organization Director General Margaret Chan to be “a breakthrough that will benefit many millions of people for many years to come,” the report outlines practical measures for using the intellectual property system to promote innovation to achieve public health goals, particularly on diseases which disproportionately affect developing country or underserved areas.
To download the text from the WHO website, click here [pdf].
To read Intellectual Property Watch’s closing report on the 19-24 May World Health Assembly, click here.
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