<div dir="ltr"><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><p>Dear friends and colleagues,</p><p><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)">Please forward this note to your relevant mailing lists.</span></p><p><br></p><p><b>Wrote by PHM-WHO-watchers</b><br>
</p><p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ghwatch.org/sites/www.ghwatch.org/files/SA_patent1a.pdf">Read the call</a></p>
</div></div></div><div><div dir="ltr">--<br>Hani Serag<br>Associate Coordinator, Global Secretariat - Cairo Office<br>People's Health Movement (PHM) <a href="http://www.phmovement.org" target="_blank">www.phmovement.org</a><br>
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