Eliminating discrimination against women in the area of health and safety, with a focus on the instrumentalization of women's bodies 2016, para. 92
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Paragraph text
Unaffordability of medicines is also closely linked to intellectual property laws, many of which provide exclusive patents for new medicines for long periods. However, intellectual property laws that fail to address the medical needs of women obstruct access to medicines by pushing up the price and by impeding the production and distribution of low-cost generic drugs. The right to health requires States to ensure that the pharmaceutical companies that hold a patent on essential medicines and medical devices make use of all the arrangements at their disposal to render the medicines accessible to all.
Condicón jurídica
Non-negotiated soft law
Organismo
Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and practice
Tipo de documento
Special Procedures' report
Medio de adopción
N.A.
Temas
Equality & Inclusion
Health
Personas afectadas
Women
Año
2016
Tipo de párrafo
Other
Reference
WG Discrimination Against Women, Report to the HRC (2016), A/HRC/32/44, para. 92.