Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Medicines and vaccines for the world's poorest: Is there any prospect for public-private cooperation? | Globalization and Health Review BioMed Central Open Access Medicines and vaccines for the world s poorest Is there any prospect for public-private cooperation Richard M Scheffler 1 2 3 and Vikram Pathania4 Address 1Director The Nicholas C. Petris Center on Health Care Markets and Consumer Welfare University of California Berkeley USA - Distinguished Professor of Health Economics Public Policy University of California Berkeley USA 3University of California Berkeley 140 Warren Hall MC7360 Berkeley CA 94720-7360 and 4PhD Student Department of Economics University of California Berkeley USA Email Richard M Scheffler - rscheff@ Vikram Pathania - pathania@ Corresponding author Published 21 July 2005 Globalization and Health 2005 1 10 doi 1744-8603-1-10 Received 22 February 2005 Accepted 21 July 2005 This article is available from http content 1 1 10 2005 Scheffler and Pathania licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract This paper reviews the current status of the global pharmaceutical industry and its research and development focus in the context of the health care needs of the developing world. It will consider the attempts to improve access to critical drugs and vaccines and increase the research effort directed at key public health priorities in the developing world. In particular it will consider prospects for public-private collaboration. The challenges and opportunities in such public-private partnerships will be discussed briefly along with a look at factors that may be key to success. Much of the focus is on HIV AIDS where the debate on the optimal balance between intellectual property rights IPR and human rights to life and health has been very
