Add gout to the lifestyle diseases
Kiggs On Sep 8, 2010, at 7:39 PM, christine munduru wrote: > Dear all, > In the last science cafe, members agreed that we write a brief of the > discussions and post to westnile net and also put the next topic for > discussion. Unfortunately this was agreed after the cafe had ended so I will > just write what I can remember. Next time we shall suggest a raportuer. > > The topic was intellectual property and access to medicines. This topic was > important becuase of the pending counterfeit goods bill in parliament that > has defined counterfeit in broad terms to include generic medicines which > Uganda depends on > > > ØDef: Intellectual property rights refers to a bundle of rights awarded by > society to individuals or organisations over creative works: inventions, > literary and artistic works and symbols, names, images, designs as a bargain > that the outcomes of the rights will benefit society at large. > Ø > ØIPRs generally can be categorised as follows: > ØIndustrial Property (functional commercial innovations), > ØPatents, Industrial designs, Trademarks, Geographical Indications, Trade > Secrets, Geographical Indications > ØArtistic and Literary Property (cultural creations) > ØCopyright > Incase of patents, the individual is to have exclusive rights for 20 years > and this is where medicines fall. > > > Brand medicines Vs generic medicines > > Brand medicines are those that are produced by the people(scientists) who > innovated them and according to international laws, they patent such drugs > for 20 years without anybody reproducing them and are allowed to sell them at > whichever price they want.e.g drugs from USA, UK Germany etc. > > But generic medicines are those which have been reproduced by people who > didnt innovate them. They simply copy the formula and using the data of the > innovaters, reproduce exactly the same drug according to the same > international law.e.g drugs from India and China. > > It is true we have counterfeit goods in Uganda but the aim of the pending law > is to protect IPR which does not belong to Ugandans. This law will not adress > the safety and quality issues instead will limit access to medicines. It will > also limit access to knowledge materials, students will not be able to > photocopy text books, farmers will not replant patent ed seeds etc. > > according to Trade Related Intellectual Property(TRIPS) agreement 1994, > counties were grouped into developed, developing and least developed like > Uganda. LDCs were to become TRIPs compliant in 2013 but incase of > pharmacuetilcals 2016. Developed countries were to become compliant as soon > as the law is operational and developing were to be compliant by 2005. > But Uganda is being pushed to have TRIPs plus laws even before we become > TRIPS compliant thru the counterfeit laws. > > Alot was shared in the discussion but cannot put them here. > members like Akile shared the work they are doing with our very own > scientists in the biosafety committee. Jose shared his expertise on seeds as > far as hybrid seeds are concerned and these were all useful to enrich our > knowledge. Okuti Boroa also shared the gap he has noted between scientists > and farmers through his work. And this is where cafe would come to close such > by taking science to the community. > > Members then realized that Uganda is signing so many documents which will > become a big problem to us in future but as a country we are not well > positined to bargain for good laws at international level. > However, at domestic level we should try to make good domestic laws. But the > challenge noted was also the free trade agreements Adovcacy was proposed as > a way forward but the problem again is lack of such information to the right > people. > Another challenge was also the fact that our country does not invest in > research to support our briliant scientists to do their own research such > that they can patent their own products. > > > As a wayforward, members acknowledged that cafe would be a good way to enrich > us and also come up with some solutions to our own life problems. They asked > that we post key issues discussed here and make sure this continues once a > month. > > The next topic was selected as life style diseases like blood presure, > diabetes and heart diseases. The facilitator was proposed to be our own Dr. > Worodria William. Patrice Mawa was to talk to him first for his availability. > > Our brother Matenga was then asked to move a vote of thanks to the > facilitator and the discussion went informal. > > Thanks > > Christine > > _______________________________________________ > WestNileNet mailing list > [email protected] > http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet > > WestNileNet is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > _______________________________________________
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