South Centre News on AMR 6, 28 September 2017
Alarm as ‘super malaria’ spreads in South East Asia
Alarm as ‘super malaria’ spreads in South East Asia
World running out of antibiotics, says WHO in new reports
Title: The Elaboration of a Legally Binding Instrument on Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises
Date: Monday, 18 September 2017
Venue: UN Headquarters, New York
Organizers: The South Centre, Permanent Missions of Ecuador and South Africa to the United Nations in New York
This update provides a snapshot of the activities of the Development, Innovation and Intellectual Property Programme during the month of August 2017.
Growing impetus to making AMR an integral issue in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea crisis: new drugs needed
State of discussion on AMR action, two years after the WHA Global Plan
Civil society and South Centre call for urgent actions to tackle AMR and ensure access and new innovation models
SOUTH CENTRE NEWS ON AMR is a service of the South Centre to provide news and information on issues relating to Antimicrobial Resistance.
The WTO’s Fisheries Subsidies Negotiations
Attempts are made to revitalise the fisheries subsidies negotiations at the WTO with the aim of achieving an outcome at the 11th WTO Ministerial Conference in December 2017.
This update provides a snapshot of the activities of the Development, Innovation and Intellectual Property Programme during the month of July 2017.
Intellectual Property in the Trans-Pacific Partnership: Increasing the Barriers for the Access to Affordable Medicines (revised)
Most free trade agreements (FTAs) signed by the United States, the European Union and the members of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) in the last 15 years contain chapters on intellectual property rights with provisions applicable to pharmaceuticals. Such provisions considerably expand the rights recognized to pharmaceutical companies under the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) established in the context of the World Trade Organization (WTO). (more…)