Save the Date! Doha+10 Conference, Berlin, November 24, 2011

 

Action against AIDS Germany is organizing an international conference in Berlin:

Doha+10 Conference

10 years after the 2001 “Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health” – Has the access to medicine been improved through or despite the new World Trade Organization framework?

• November 24, 2011, 10.00-18.00h
• Baden-Württemberg Representation Berlin
• Tiergartenstr. 15, 10785 Berlin

The 2001 „Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health“ reaffirms the right of the WTO member states to interpret and implement the TRIPS Agreement to protect public health and to enhance access to medicines. In particular, it confirms the member states’ right to issue compulsory licenses. 10 years after adopting the Doha Declaration, the Doha+10 Conference will assess if these goals have been achieved.

• Announcement as printer-friendly PDF file:
  Save the Date! Doha +10 Conference, Berlin, November 24, 2011

The conference will bring together national and international stakeholders from the development cooperation, humanitarian aid, civil society, politics, academia and the pharmaceutical industry to analyse experiences of key countries (Brazil, India, Kenya and Thailand), to critically look at bilateral and regional trade agreements and to discuss alternatives and perspectives concerning innovation and access to essential pharmaceutical products. The one-day conference will be addressed to experts, politicians, the interested public and the media. At the same time, the event will continue the discussion of the “Symposium Patients, Patents and Profits” from 2007 and its Berlin Declaration including fundamental criteria for innovation and access to vital pharmaceutical products.

If you are interested to participate, please save the date. 

• [Update October 28, 2011] You can register for the conference and download the programme here.

Further Information and Contact

• Action against AIDS Germany with more than one hundred member organizations and about 280 community-based groups advocates that Germany has to fulfil its obligation as an economically privileged industrialized country and thus to pay an adequate contribution for the control of the global HIV epidemic. 
• The conference will be organised by the Pharma expert group of Action against AIDS Germany and financed by its member organizations action medeor, Doctors without Borders, Bread for the World, German Institute for Medical Mission, medico international, Medical Mission Institute as well as the Church Development Service.
• Contact:
  Susanne Scholle
  scholle(at)aids-kampagne(dot)de

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