Abstract

VARGAS-CHAVES, Iván. A new Dimension on Access to medicines Policy: Between the Lack of Regulation, the Permissiveness and the state's Abandonment. Estud. Socio-Juríd [online]. 2015, vol.17, n.1, pp.169-193. ISSN 0124-0579.

The problem of access to medicines is not usually the responsibility of pharmaceutical industry and its questionable role. The governments of developing countries, as we discuss in this article, has an important part of the responsibility for the abandonment of millions of patients who die before getting access to a treatment. To demonstrate this, we will refer to three scenarios in which public policies does not help to solve the problem: the lack of regulation and oversight; the permissiveness with pseudo-scientific practices; and the state's abandonment in remote regions. Throughout the text, and as a conclusion, we will make a claim on governments to direct their actions towards solving the issues at hand.

Keywords : Ethics; health care quality; access; and evaluation; health public policy; intellectual property of pharmaceutic products and process; pharmaceutical trade.

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