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Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: TRIPS, the Doha Declaration and increasing access to medicines: policy options for Ghana | Globalization and Health BioMed Central Open Access Short report TRIPS the Doha Declaration and increasing access to medicines policy options for Ghana JC Cohen 1 M Gyansa-Lutterodt2 KTorpey3 LC Esmail4 and G Kurokawa5 Address Assistant Professor Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy University of Toronto Director Comparative Program on Health and Society Munk Centre for International Studies University of Toronto 2Programme Manager Ghana National Drug Programme Ministry of Health Republic of Ghana 3Senior Clinical Officer Family Health International . student Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Toronto and 5Law student Faculty of Law University of Toronto Email JC Cohen - M Gyansa-Lutterodt - gndp@ K Torpey - ktorpey@ LC Esmail - G Kurokawa - Corresponding author Published 09 December 2005 Received 05 July 2005 J _. Accepted 09 December 2005 Globalization and Health 2005 1 17 doi l 744-8603-1-17 This article is available from http content 1 1 17 2005 Cohen et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract__ There are acute disparities in pharmaceutical access between developing and industrialized countries. Developing countries make up approximately 80 of the world s population but only represent approximately 20 of global pharmaceutical consumption. Among the many barriers to drug access are the potential consequences of the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights TRIPS Agreement. Many developing countries have recently modified their patent laws to conform to the .