Pills for the Poorest: TRIPS and access to medications in Sub-Saharan Africa

What is it about?

Pills for the Poorest offers a new perspective on the much-debated issue of the links between intellectual property and access to medication. It explores the ways in which TRIPs and pharmaceutical patents are translated in the daily practices of those who purchase, distribute, and use (or fail to use) medicines in sub-Saharan Africa. It demonstrates how intellectual property affects access to medicines in ways that are often discreet, indirect and forgotten, focusing on two countries on which little has been written in relation to access to medicines.

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Why is it important?

This books deals with the important issue of access to health, and offers new perspective on how law might impair such access in two understudied countries of sub-Saharan Africa.