Affordable Access to Essential Medication in Developing Countries: Conflicts Between Ethical and Economic Imperatives  

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Schklenk, Udo ; Ashcroft, Richard E.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy vol. 27 no. 2 (Apr. 2002), page 179-195.
Topik: African; Bioethics; Drug Pricing; Ethics; HIV/AIDS; Intellectual Property; Lecensing; Patent; Pharmaceuticals; Population Health; Poverty; Resource Allocation
Fulltext: MM80V27N2P179.pdf (99.48KB)

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: MM80.12 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Recent economic and political advances in developing countries on the African continent and South East Asia are threatened by the rising death and morbidity rates of HIV/AIDS. In the first part of this paper we explain the reasons for the absence of affordable access to essential AIDS medication. In the second part we take a closer look at some of the pivotal frameworks relevant for this situation and undertake an ethical analysis of these frameworks. In the third part we discuss a few of the proposed solutions to the problem and conclude with an argument in support of our preferred course of action. In this article we argue for compulsory licensing of essential AIDS medications in the current conditions of public health emergency. We argue on broadly consequentialist grounds that compulsory licensing is preferable both morally and pragmatically to the alternatives, notably the currently offered price cuts and drug donation schemes.

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