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Access to Medicines and Distributive Justice: Breaching D oha's Ethical Threshold
Author(s) -
KiddellMonroe Rachel
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
developing world bioethics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.398
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 1471-8847
pISSN - 1471-8731
DOI - 10.1111/dewb.12046
Subject(s) - distributive justice , mirroring , economic justice , public health , right to health , essential medicines , global health , trips architecture , global justice , political science , access to medicines , human rights , law and economics , medicine , sociology , law , nursing , communication , parallel computing , computer science
The global health crisis in non‐communicable diseases ( NCDs ) reveals a deep global health inequity that lies at the heart of global justice concerns. Mirroring the HIV / AIDS epidemic, NCDs bring into stark relief once more the human consequences of trade policies that reinforce global inequities in treatment access. Recognising distributive justice issues in access to medicines for their populations, W orld T rade O rganisation ( WTO ) members confirmed the primacy of access to medicines for all in trade and public health in the landmark D oha D eclaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health of 2001.