Access to medicines and pharmaceutical patents: civil society struggle for the right to health, facing the transnational pharmaceutical corporations

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Autor(a) principal: Villardi, Pedro
Data de Publicação: 2017
Outros Autores: Fonseca, Felipe
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: por
Título da fonte: Homa Publica (Online)
Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufjf.br/index.php/HOMA/article/view/30544
Resumo: Access to medicines and pharmaceutical patents have been the subject of debate, especially since the creation of the WTO and the TRIPS Agreement in the early 1990s. In a strategic alliance, developed countries and corporations have articulated the obligation to have patents for medicines. They argued that there would be no further medical innovations without monopoly incentive, to recover investments. However, two decades later, there is plenty of data proving how fallacious this argument was/is. In this article, we will present the impacts of pharmaceutical patents on access to medicines and medical innovation and we will argue that only with a systemic confrontation with corporate power it is possible guarantee access to medicines and pharmaceutical innovation based on health needs.
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spelling Access to medicines and pharmaceutical patents: civil society struggle for the right to health, facing the transnational pharmaceutical corporationsAcesso a medicamentos e patentes farmacêuticas: a luta da sociedade civil pelo direito à saúde frente às corporações farmacêuticas transnacionais Acesso a medicamentosPatentes farmacêuticasCorporações transnacionaisDireito à saúdeAccess to medicinesPharmaceutical patentsTransnational corporationsRight to healthAccess to medicines and pharmaceutical patents have been the subject of debate, especially since the creation of the WTO and the TRIPS Agreement in the early 1990s. In a strategic alliance, developed countries and corporations have articulated the obligation to have patents for medicines. They argued that there would be no further medical innovations without monopoly incentive, to recover investments. However, two decades later, there is plenty of data proving how fallacious this argument was/is. In this article, we will present the impacts of pharmaceutical patents on access to medicines and medical innovation and we will argue that only with a systemic confrontation with corporate power it is possible guarantee access to medicines and pharmaceutical innovation based on health needs.Acesso a medicamentos e patentes farmacêuticas têm sido alvo de intensos debates, principalmente a partir da criação da OMC e da assinatura do Acordo TRIPS, no início dos anos 1990. Em uma aliança estratégica, países desenvolvidos e corporações farmacêuticas, articularam a obrigatoriedade do patenteamento de medicamentos, argumentando que não haveria mais inovações sem o incentivo do monopólio, para recuperação do investimento. No entanto, duas décadas depois, não faltam dados para comprovar quão falacioso era esse argumento. Neste artigo apresentaremos os impactos das patentes farmacêuticas no acesso a medicamentos e na inovação médica e defenderemos que somente a partir do enfrentamento sistêmico do poder das corporações é possível garantir acesso a medicamentos e inovação farmacêutica, baseada em necessidade de saúde.  Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora2017-07-31info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionPeer ReviewedRevisado por paresAvaliado pelos paresapplication/pdfhttps://periodicos.ufjf.br/index.php/HOMA/article/view/30544Homa Publica - Revista Internacional de Derechos Humanos y Empresas; Vol. 1 No. 2 (2017); e:018Homa Publica - Revista Internacional de Derechos Humanos y Empresas; Vol. 1 Núm. 2 (2017); e:018Homa Publica - Revista Internacional de Derechos Humanos y Empresas; v. 1 n. 2 (2017); e:0182526-0774reponame:Homa Publica (Online)instname:Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF)instacron:UFJFporhttps://periodicos.ufjf.br/index.php/HOMA/article/view/30544/20546Derechos de autor 2017 Homainfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessVillardi, PedroFonseca, Felipe2021-12-29T18:44:47Zoai:periodicos.ufjf.br:article/30544Revistahttps://periodicos.ufjf.br/index.php/HOMAPUBhttps://periodicos.ufjf.br/index.php/HOMA/oairevista.homa@ufjf.edu.br||2526-07742526-0774opendoar:2021-12-29T18:44:47Homa Publica (Online) - Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF)false
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Access to medicines and pharmaceutical patents: civil society struggle for the right to health, facing the transnational pharmaceutical corporations
Acesso a medicamentos e patentes farmacêuticas: a luta da sociedade civil pelo direito à saúde frente às corporações farmacêuticas transnacionais
title Access to medicines and pharmaceutical patents: civil society struggle for the right to health, facing the transnational pharmaceutical corporations
spellingShingle Access to medicines and pharmaceutical patents: civil society struggle for the right to health, facing the transnational pharmaceutical corporations
Villardi, Pedro
Acesso a medicamentos
Patentes farmacêuticas
Corporações transnacionais
Direito à saúde
Access to medicines
Pharmaceutical patents
Transnational corporations
Right to health
title_short Access to medicines and pharmaceutical patents: civil society struggle for the right to health, facing the transnational pharmaceutical corporations
title_full Access to medicines and pharmaceutical patents: civil society struggle for the right to health, facing the transnational pharmaceutical corporations
title_fullStr Access to medicines and pharmaceutical patents: civil society struggle for the right to health, facing the transnational pharmaceutical corporations
title_full_unstemmed Access to medicines and pharmaceutical patents: civil society struggle for the right to health, facing the transnational pharmaceutical corporations
title_sort Access to medicines and pharmaceutical patents: civil society struggle for the right to health, facing the transnational pharmaceutical corporations
author Villardi, Pedro
author_facet Villardi, Pedro
Fonseca, Felipe
author_role author
author2 Fonseca, Felipe
author2_role author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Villardi, Pedro
Fonseca, Felipe
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Acesso a medicamentos
Patentes farmacêuticas
Corporações transnacionais
Direito à saúde
Access to medicines
Pharmaceutical patents
Transnational corporations
Right to health
topic Acesso a medicamentos
Patentes farmacêuticas
Corporações transnacionais
Direito à saúde
Access to medicines
Pharmaceutical patents
Transnational corporations
Right to health
description Access to medicines and pharmaceutical patents have been the subject of debate, especially since the creation of the WTO and the TRIPS Agreement in the early 1990s. In a strategic alliance, developed countries and corporations have articulated the obligation to have patents for medicines. They argued that there would be no further medical innovations without monopoly incentive, to recover investments. However, two decades later, there is plenty of data proving how fallacious this argument was/is. In this article, we will present the impacts of pharmaceutical patents on access to medicines and medical innovation and we will argue that only with a systemic confrontation with corporate power it is possible guarantee access to medicines and pharmaceutical innovation based on health needs.
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