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In numerous letters on this matter, civil society organizations have highlighted the
Geneva, 12 March 2010critical importance of this exemption from pharmaceutical patents and test data
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Had the WTO-TRIPS Council granted the LDCs their desired and valid requests,
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to the world that the WTO will take the necessary
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steps to protect the poor and vulnerable. Instead, unfortunately due to strong
opposition mainly from the US, the WTO-TRIPS Council reached a decision to
accord LDCs a transition period of 17 years.
For this reason, the LDCs request for a pharmaceutical transition period until a
country ceases to be an LDC, has received almost universal unequivocal support
from civil society globally, international and UN agencies (WHO, UNDP,
UNAIDS, UNITAID) and the European Union with no declared opposition from
the WTO members except for the United States.
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Third World Network Geneva
The Asia Pacific Network of People living with HIV/AIDS (APN+); Both ENDS
(Netherlands); Bern Declaration (Switzerland); EquityBD (Bangladesh); Coastal
Association for Societal Transformation Trust (Bangladesh); Center for Health
Human Rights and Development (CEHURD)(Uganda); Health Action
International (HAI); Health GAP (Global Access Project); Knowledge Ecology
International; LDC Watch; MSF Access Campaign; Public Citizen; Third World
Network, Yolse (Burkina Faso).