Volume 84, Number 5, May 2006, 337-424

IN THIS MONTH'S BULLETIN

WHO’s Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, Innovation and Public Health; Open access and copyright as alternatives to patents; Access to medicines as a human right; Should genes be patented?; Access to life-saving medicines stumbles on trade rules; Rich and poor countries divided on patent treaty; Meeting the need for treatment: the initiatives; Bulletin interview: do patents work for public health?
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EDITORIALS

Public health, innovation and intellectual property rights: unfinished business
- Tomris Türmen & Charles Clift
HTML | Full Text [pdf 54kb] | doi:10.2471/BLT.06.031880 [pdf 54kb]

The impact of open access upon public health
- Virginia Barbour et al.
HTML | Full Text [pdf 69kb] | doi:10.2471/BLT.06.032409 [pdf 69kb]

Intellectual property and public health
- Anatole Krattiger & Richard T Mahoney
HTML | Full Text [pdf 61kb] | doi:10.2471/BLT.06.031898 [pdf 61kb]

Public health ethics and intellectual property policy
- Barry N Pakes
HTML | Full Text [pdf 62kb] | doi:10.2471/BLT.06.031187 [pdf 62kb]

NEWS

News
Access to AIDS medicines stumbles on trade rules; Rich and poor countries divided on patent treaty; Protecting traditional knowledge: the San and hoodia; Meeting the need for treatment: the initiatives
Access to AIDS medicine story [HTML] | Patent treaty/San & hoodia story [HTML] | Treatment initiatives story [HTML] | Full Text [pdf 283kb]

WHO News
Bulletin interview: Do patents work for public health? - Interview with Carlos Correa; CIPIH report: main recommendations; Recent news from WHO
Interview in HTML | CIPIH report: main recommendations | Full Text [pdf 184kb]

POLICY & PRACTICE

Patents and clearing houses
- Esther van Zimmeren et al.
Abstract [HTML] | Full Text [pdf 589kb] | doi:10.2471/BLT.06.030445 [pdf 589kb]

TRIPS and priority vaccines
- Julie Milstien & Miloud Kaddar
Abstract [HTML] | Full Text [pdf 378kb] | doi:10.2471/BLT.05.028431 [pdf 378kb]

Benchmarking intellectual property
- Sisule F Musungu
Abstract [HTML] | Full Text [pdf 285kb] | doi:10.2471/BLT.06.029793 [pdf 285kb]

Essential medicines and human rights
- Hans V Hogerzeil
Abstract [HTML] | Full Text [pdf 160kb] | doi:10.2471/BLT.06.031153 [pdf 160kb]

Incentives for research on neglected diseases
- Stephen M Maurer
Abstract [HTML] | Full Text [pdf 196kb] | doi:10.2471/BLT.06.029835 [pdf 196kb]

Intellectual property and research collaboration
- Dave A Chokshi, Michael Parker, & Dominic P Kwiatkowski
Abstract [HTML] | Full Text [pdf 405kb] | doi:10.2471/BLT.06.029843 [pdf 405kb]

DNA patenting: implications for public health research
- Graham Dutfield
Abstract [HTML] | Full Text [pdf 284kb] | doi:10.2471/BLT.06.030296 [pdf 284kb]

Antiretroviral pricing in Global Fund programmes
- Ashwin Vasan et al.
Abstract [HTML] | Full Text [pdf 311kb] | doi:10.2471/BLT.05.025684 [pdf 311kb]

PUBLIC HEALTH REVIEW

Bilateral free trade agreements and access to medicines
- Carlos María Correa
Abstract [HTML] | Full Text [pdf 426kb] | doi:10.2471/BLT.05.023432 [pdf 426kb]

ROUND TABLE

Human rights approach to essential medicines
- Xavier Seuba
Commentaries: James Packard Love; Jonathan Kahn; Helena Nygren-Krug & Hans V Hogerzeil
Abstract [HTML] | Full Text [pdf 392kb] | doi:10.2471/BLT.04.019133 [pdf 392kb]

PERSPECTIVES

Staking claims in the biotechnology Klondike
- John Sulston
Full Text [pdf 153kb] | doi:10.2471/BLT.06.031781 [pdf 153kb]

Expanding global research and development for neglected diseases
- David J Winters
Full Text [pdf 140kb] | doi:10.2471/BLT.06.029868 [pdf 140kb]

Patent policy and public health in developing countries: lessons from Japan
- Reiko Aoki, Kensuke Kubo, & Hiroko Yamane
Full Text [pdf 133kb] | Read comments on this article | doi:10.2471/BLT.06.029728 [pdf 133kb]

Report of the Commission on Intellectual Property Rights: an industry perspective
- Eric Noehrenberg
Full Text [pdf 75kb] | doi:10.2471/BLT.06.032417 [pdf 75kb]

Report of the Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, Innovation and Public Health: a call to governments
- Ellen ’t Hoen
Full Text [pdf 135kb] | doi:10.2471/BLT.06.032391 [pdf 135kb]

BOOKS & ELECTRONIC MEDIA

Making medicines affordable: studying WHO initiatives
- Nuria Homedes
Full Text [pdf 59kb]

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