Regional Cooperation, Intellectual Property Law and Access to Medicines: A Holistic Approach for Least...

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Tolulope Anthony Adekola

Regional Cooperation, Intellectual Property Law and Access to Medicines

A Holistic Approach for Least Developed Countries

Tolulope Anthony Adekola

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Routledge
05 December 2023

Development studies; International trade; International law; Intellectual property law; Medical & healthcare law

Series: Routledge Research in Health Law

This book examines the potential for regionalisation of intellectual property law and policy as a means of improving pharmaceutical access for least developed countries. The challenge of sustainable access to pharmaceuticals continues to be an issue of global significance. While much has been written on emerging economies in this context, least developed countries have been largely overlooked. This book fills this gap by taking the East African Community as a case study of developing and least developed countries to illustrate why and how a regional collective approach is preferred. It adopts a holistic approach in finding sustainable solutions to both IP and non-IP barriers to pharmaceutical access across a range of inter-related issues through a regional cooperative scheme. It evaluates factors that are necessary for successful regional cooperation, such as legal and policy coherence, WTO rule compliance, the threat of protectionism, regional competition rules, and so on, in order to produce legal and policy recommendations relevant to both existing and intending regional coalitions desiring to improve pharmaceutical access. It also looks beyond the scope of IP barriers to pharmaceutical access, examining non-IP-related factors such as pharmaceutical market intelligence, local pharmaceutical manufacturing capacity, economies of scale and purchasing power, medical regulation and quality assurance, technology transfer, and market size amongst others. The book will be an invaluable resource for academics, researchers and policy-makers working in the areas of Public Health Law, International Trade Law, Intellectual Property Law and Development Studies.

By: Tolulope Anthony Adekola
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032379036
ISBN 10: 1032379030
Series: Routledge Research in Health Law
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 05 December 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Setting the Scene: The Context and the Problem; 2. Contextual Analysis of East African Countries' Healthcare Systems and Epidemiology; 3. Leveraging TRIPS Flexibilities for Pharmaceutical Access- A Survey of EAC Partner States’ Patent Laws; 4. TRIPS Amendment’s Special Regional Treatment- An Appraisal; 5. The Feasibility or Otherwise of Regional Pharmaceutical Production in the EAC; 6. Regional Cooperation, Human Rights and Equitable Vaccine Distribution - The COVID-19 Pandemic Experience; 7. Charting the regional cooperative path

Tolulope Anthony Adekola is a Research Fellow at TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland, Australia.