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The listed diseases were listed as exempt no matter what; any other disease in an emergency was listed as exempt. Therefore with the us wording patent-knockoff chagas cures would be allowed in a chagas emergency.

Still, we need a better way to fund drug research. These treaties should be doing things like cooperative payments towards research. But that wouldn't be "free trade" so the ayn rand/milton friedman/greenspan zealots would have a fit =(



> with the us wording patent-knockoff chagas cures would be allowed in a chagas emergency.

I'm not clear what you meant by that. Are you saying the US objection was to allow generics treatment of Chagas in any form?

FYI - here is the WHO fact sheet on Chagas disease. Seems like a major public health issue for Lat-Am countries.

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs340/en/index.htm...


The US is requiring Lat-Am countries to enforce US patents on Chagas treatments, rather than let them be manufactured locally at lower cost.




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