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Original publisher: Washington : U.S. G.P.O., 2008. LC Number: KF26 .F5 2008zg OCLC Number: (OCoLC)688607869 Subject: Intellectual property infringement -- Prevention -- International cooperation. Excerpt: ... 11 require that solution to address health needs and that are being used fundamentally for budget reasons where the government is purchasing lower-cost products and actually marking them up themselves and making a profit to sell them. So that is taking the flexibilities of TRIPS, in my view, too far. Having said that, the flexibilities of TRIPS are very important. So I would encourage, and I think the WHO Intergovernmental Working Group did a very good job of looking at this as a com-prehensive issue that recognizes the importance of intellectual property, recognizes the need to address access issues which cannot be done either by industry alone, by governments alone, or by non-governmental organizations alone. We need to all work together on that. The pharmaceutical industry - and I will not belabor it this morning - has, we think, a very proud record of doing what we can to enhance access. But clearly, much more needs to be done. HAIRMAN The C. All right. I am going to have to give Professor Barton equal time here. INDLER Mr. K. That is fine. Thank you. HAIRMAN The C. All right. Thank you very much, Mr. Kindler. ARTON Mr. B. Let me start also by noting some points that I think are in common. I think we are both agreed that sub-Saharan Africa should get generic prices. The C. Mr. Kindler, did you hear that? HAIRMAN Mr. K. Yes. For life-saving drugs that they need, abso-INDLER lutely. They represent a very small portion of pharmaceutical sales. The C. Thank you. HAIRMAN ARTON Mr. B. Agreed. Agreed. The big problems at that point are now the access kinds of issues that Mr. Kindler mentioned. Indeed, we have now reached something like 30 percent of the world's HIV people who need anti-retrovirals in low-and middle-income coun-tries. The reason that it is n
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International enforcement of intellectual property rights and American competitiveness: hearing before the Committee on Finance
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