Abbott Laboratories
Thailand violates drug patents for its own profit
IPN Opinion article
Thailand claims that its decision to issue compulsory licenses for several western-owned medicines is in the public interest. However, this policy risks increasing already serious resistance to AIDS medicines, with terrible implications for public health.
NGOs on Drugs
IPN Opinion article
Alec van Gelder writes in the Wall Street Journal Europe that the proposals to circumvent property rights made by the self-styled "friends of development", a group of NGOs and Governments from poorer countries, are misguided in their attempts to improve access to medicines, among other things.
