PHM-Exch> Trade pact unfairly denies affordable generic medicines

[Claudio Schuftan]

*Trade pact unfairly denies affordable generic medicines
**to some poor counties
*Central American countries are being denied access to affordable generic
versions of medicines as a result of the Central American-Dominican Republic
Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR) according to today’s
*Snapshot*<http://www.epi.org/economic_snapshots/entry/trade_agreement_favors_pharmaceutical_companies_over_sick/>.
Global Policy Network organizer, Tony
Avirgan<http://www.epi.org/pages/economist/#avirgan>,
notes that Congress removed those patent extension provisions in its draft
Peru Free Trade Agreement in May 2007.
“The United States Trade Representative and the Department of Commerce
should immediately remove those patent extension provisions for all CAFTA-DR
countries as well,” said Avirgan.

*   *About EPI
*The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) is an independent, nonprofit,
nonpartisan research institute – or “think tank” – that researches the
impact of economic trends and policies on working people in the United
States and around the world.*

Economic Policy Institute
Washington, D.C.
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