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NGOs, Industry Weigh Alternatives For R&D Financing, Counterfeiting At WHO

By Intellectual Property Watch

The past year?s expert working group process at the World Health Organization on solutions for financing of research and development into diseases afflicting poor nations was flawed and led to an unsatisfactory result, representatives of nongovernmental organisations said this week. But innovation and access can both be provided, and the issue of IP protection can be de-linked from the way innovation is done, speakers at a side event to this week?s World Health Assembly said. Meanwhile, NGOs and industry also offered their views on WHO counterfeiting efforts this week.

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Full post as published by Intellectual Property Watch on May 21, 2010 (boomark / email).