@inbook {67191,
	title = {Access to Essential Medicines as a Component of the Right to Health},
	year = {2009},
	note = {Download PDF},
	month = {Apr 1, 2009},
	abstract = {In Human Rights Obligations of Non-State Actors, Andrew Clapham wrote,\&quot;Perhaps the most obvious threat to human rights has come from the inability
of people to achieve access to expensive medicine, particularly in the
context of HIV and AIDS.\&quot; He was referring to threats to human rights
from intellectual property agreements under the World Trade Organization,
which are often seen as obeying a different{\textemdash}and many would say utterly
incompatible{\textemdash}logic than human rights. The right to health, in the
interpretation of the Committee on Economic Social and Cultural Rights,
means that \&quot;States Parties ... have a duty to prevent unreasonably high
costs for access to essential medicines.\&quot;},
	author = {Marks, Stephen}
}
