PHM-Exch> During the 134th WHO's EB session, Civil Society calls upon Member States to foil Conspiracy by Big Pharma to Undermine South African Patent Reforms

[Hani Serag]

Dear friends and colleagues,

Please forward this note to your relevant mailing lists.


*Wrote by PHM-WHO-watchers*

During the debate on 'Access to Essential Medicines' at the 134th WHO
Executive Board meeting (Thursday 23 January 2014), the South African
delegate made an intervention regarding the campaign plans of global
pharmaceutical companies to undermine the proposed revision of South
African patent laws. Other delegates also deplored what has been describe
by the South African Health Minister as a plot to commit ‘genocide’. The
WHO Director-General spoke of her determination not to allow pharmaceutical
profits to take priority over access to health care.

Following the debate a group of civil society networks including Health
Action International (HAI), Knowledge Ecology International (KEI), Médecins
Sans Frontières (MSF), People's Health Movement (PHM) and Third World
Network (TWN) issued a formal call for delegates to adopt a resolution
expressing solidarity with South Africa. The Call includes background and
proposed draft resolution.

Read the call<http://www.ghwatch.org/sites/www.ghwatch.org/files/SA_patent1a.pdf>
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Hani Serag
Associate Coordinator, Global Secretariat - Cairo Office
People's Health Movement (PHM) www.phmovement.org
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