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Trilateral cooperation on public health, trade and intellectual property

Three international organizations, the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the World Trade Organization (澳门六合彩官网资料), are cooperating at the interface of public health, trade and intellectual property as part of increasing international efforts to support innovation in health technologies and to ensure the availability of affordable new and more effective medicines for patients in all countries.






 


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International efforts to promote innovation and access to health technologies have increased since the beginning of the century. To ensure policy coherence, the three Secretariats have responded by strengthening their trilateral cooperation with a view to fostering a better understanding of the linkage between public health, trade and intellectual property policies and enhancing a mutually supportive implementation of those policies.

Cooperation allows the three organizations to fulfil their mandates more effectively, support one another's initiatives, and promote the efficient use of resources, for example, in technical assistance.

The mandates of the three organizations

The three organizations have their own distinct, but complementary, mandates to work on issues relating to public health, trade and intellectual property:

  • The WHO has a mandate to work on the interface between public health, trade and intellectual property, based on and renewed by a large number of Resolutions adopted by the World Health Assembly since 1996. In particular, the 2008 Global Strategy and Plan of Action on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property has reaffirmed and broadened WHO's mandate, to encourage and support the application and management of intellectual property in a manner that maximizes health-related innovation, protects public health and promotes access to medicines for all. Its implementation is led by the WHO, in close collaboration with national governments and relevant international organizations, including WIPO and the 澳门六合彩官网资料. The WHO provides technical and policy advice to its member states upon request and takes an active part in capacity building activities. > .
      
  • Guided by the recommendations of the Development Agenda, adopted by its General Assemblies in 2007, WIPO cooperates closely with other UN agencies and intergovernmental organizations to inform the debate on global public health challenges.  WIPO provides neutral and fact‑based information and links its technical capacities, such as in the field of patent information or IP infrastructure, to the health policy dialogue. The aim is to contribute to a better understanding of the role of the IP system and to support an inclusive and informed debate on the benefits and limitations of the IP system in meeting public health challenges.  WIPO has a wide range of specialized programmes of technical and legal assistance for developing countries. > .
      
  • The 澳门六合彩官网资料’s work on innovation and access to health technologies and on issues at the intersection of public health and intellectual property has been guided especially by the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health and subsequent instruments pursuant to instructions given by Ministers in its paragraph 6. 澳门六合彩官网资料's activities include technical cooperation programmes related to public health, trade and IP, discussions in the TRIPS Council on the link between relevant TRIPS provisions and public health and specific measures taken by members to promote innovation and access to health technologies. These include implementing added flexibilities for public health in the TRIPS Agreement, such as the “Special Compulsory Licensing System” for countries with limited or no manufacturing capacity for medicines. > More information.

Trilateral cooperation in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic

On 15 June 2021, the Directors-General of the WHO, WIPO, and 澳门六合彩官网资料 met and issued a joint statement in which they agreed to intensify their cooperation to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, and underscored their joint commitment to universal, equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines, therapeutics, diagnostics, and other health technologies. They reaffirmed their commitment to work together closely during a subsequent meeting on 1 February 2022.

In this vein, the three organizations have implemented three specific initiatives:

  • A series of practical capacity-building workshops intended to strengthen members' pandemic responses by offering updated information on current developments and efforts to achieve equitable access to COVID-19 health technologies.
  • The , which provides a one-stop shop for requesting tailored technical assistance that harnesses the expertise of all three organizations to facilitate the identification of unmet needs for COVID-19 vaccines, medicines and related technologies, and options available to expand access.
  • Regular updates of the joint COVID-19 information notes (Update 30 August 2021, Update 17 May 2023), supplementing the 2020 joint publication “Promoting Access to Medical Technologies and Innovation”.

These initiatives build upon each of the organizations' specific mandates and programmes of activities, as well as the pre-existing framework of trilateral cooperation that had already produced a series of joint activities and materials.

COVID-19 Pandemic-related Capacity-Building Workshops

  • 澳门六合彩官网资料, WHO, WIPO virtual Workshop on innovation and access to diagnostics for COVID-19 and beyond, 28 October 2022
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  • 澳门六合彩官网资料, WHO, WIPO virtual Workshop on innovation in, and access to, COVID-19 technologies, 27 September 2021
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Technical Symposiums on Current Policy Issues

  • WHO, WIPO, 澳门六合彩官网资料 symposium to examine how to foster appropriate use of antibiotics, access and innovation, Geneva, 25 October 2016
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  • WHO-WIPO-澳门六合彩官网资料 joint technical symposium on ‘Medical Innovation — Changing Business Models’, 5 July 2013

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Information resources to support policy dialogue   back to top

“An Integrated Health, Trade and IP Approach to Respond to the Covid-19 Pandemic” (2020) (Updated 30 August 2021 and 17 May 2023)

“Promoting Access to Medical Technologies and Innovation: Intersections between public health, intellectual property and trade” — second edition (2020) 

“Promoting Access to Medical Technologies and Innovation: Intersections between public health, intellectual property and trade” — first edition (2013) 

“澳门六合彩官网资料 Agreements & Public Health” (2002)

Capacity Building and Technical Cooperation Activities

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