The United States is telling African leaders that adopting stringent intellectual property policies will promote African growth through innovation. In reality, Africa has far more to lose from stricter intellectual property regulation, especially when it comes to access to generic medicines and...
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Posted in: Africa, Health, United States
Topics: access to medicines, Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, Brett Davidson, Free Trade Agreement, Health, health media, India, intellectual property, public health, South Africa, Trans Pacific Free Trade Agreement, TRIPS, United States, World Trade Organization
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A recent BBC debate challenged the conventional wisdom that the UK public is unequivocally opposed to drug decriminalization and that political support for a more liberal drug policy is untenable.
Posted in: Europe, Health, Rights & Justice
Topics: drug decriminalization, drug policy, Jonathan Price, UK
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Epidemiologist Jonathan Smith is working on a documentary film about the lives of four mineworkers who were dismissed from their jobs and sent home after contracting tuberculosis in the South African gold mines.
Posted in: Africa, Health, Rights & Justice
Topics: Brett Davidson, Health, health media, HIV/AIDS, Jonathan Smith, migrants, mine workers, public health, South Africa, Swaziland, tuberculosis, video advocacy