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BOX 1: WHA RESOLUTIONS, WORKING GROUPS ESTABLISHED AND MEETINGS CONDUCTED RELATED TO INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS,
INNOVATION AND PUBLIC HEALTH RESOLUTIONS WORKING GROUPS
MEETINGS IMPORTANT RECOMMENDATIONS
adopted by the 60
th
World Health Assembly on May 2007
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1. provide technical and financial support for regional
consultative meetings in order to set regional priorities that will inform the work of the
Intergovernmental Working Group; and 2.
encourage the development of proposals for health-needs driven research and development for
discussion at the Intergovernmental Working Group that includes a range of incentive
mechanisms including also addressing the linkage between the cost of research and development
and the price of medicines, vaccines, diagnostic kits and other health-care products and a method
for tailoring the optimal mix of incentives to a particular condition or product, with the objective
of addressing diseases that disproportionately affect developing countries;
5.1 Resolution WHA61.21 Global Strategy and Plan of Action on Public Health,
Innovation and Intellectual Property adopted by the 61
st
World Health Assembly: May 2008
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5.2 Establishment of the Expert Working Group on Research and Development:
Financing
and Coordination
in November 2008. This EWG on RD
submitted its Final Report to the 63
rd
WHA in 2010
Global Strategy and Plan of Action has 8 elements, of which the 7
th
element covers promoting sustainable financing mechanisms. Among the key actions to be
taken is to “establish a result-oriented and time- limited expert working group under the auspices of
WHO and linking up with other relevant groups to examine current financing and coordination of
research and development, as well as proposals for new and innovative sources of financing to stimulate
RD related to Type II and Type II diseases and the specific RD needs of developing countries in
relation to Type I disease
s”.
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6. Resolution WHA62.16 Global strategy and plan of action on public health,
innovation and intellectual property adopted by the 62
nd
World Health Assembly: May 2009
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The Director-General was requested to:
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1. significantly increase support towards greater
efficiency and
effectiveness in
the implementation of the global strategy and plan of
action on public health, innovation and intellectual property and prioritize concrete
actions in the area of capacity-building and access; and
2. in addition to continued monitoring, to conduct an
overall programme review of the global strategy and plan of action in 2014 on its achievement,
remaining challenges and recommendations on the way forward to the Assembly in 2015 through
the Executive Board.
