The pharmaceutical sector, patents and access to medicines in the South

This article deals with the lack of access to drug treatments experienced by the poor in the economic South. First, it studies the extraordinarily profitable pharmaceutical industry, whose research forgets about the illnesses typical of the South, given its greatbusiness and market concentration in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Xabier Barrutia Etxebarría, Patxi Zábalo Arena
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB) 2003-12-01
Series:Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals
Subjects:
OMC
PVD
Online Access:http://www.cidob.org/es/content/download/3459/36665/file/64barrutia.pdf