Publications
- Access to Essential Medicines as a Component of the Right to Health
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- by Marks, Stephen
- In Human Rights Obligations of Non-State Actors, Andrew Clapham wrote,
"Perhaps the most obvious threat to human rights has come from the inability
of people to achieve access to expensive medicine, particularly in the
context of HIV and AIDS." He was referring to threats to human rights
from intellectual property agreements under the World Trade Organization,
which are often seen as obeying a different—and many would say utterly
incompatible—logic than human rights. The right to health, in the
interpretation of the Committee on Economic Social and Cultural Rights,
means that "States Parties ... have a duty to prevent unreasonably high
costs for access to essential medicines."
- Publication Type: Book Chapter
- Published Date: April 2009
- Field of Interest: Global Issues
- Marks, Stephen M. "Access to Essential Medicines as a Component of the Right to Health." Realizing the Right to Health: Swiss Human Rights Book, edited by Andrew Clapham, Mary Robinson, and Claire Mahon. Switzerland: Rueffer & Rub, 2009.
