1. Béchir N’Daw, UNAIDS Secretariat
Technical Briefing Seminar for Consultants on Procurement and Supply Management for HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria
Copenhagen, Denmark
30 January-02 February 2005
Béchir N’Daw, UNAIDS Secretariat

2. Africa: disease versus health workforce
Africa's Burden of Diseases
Africa's HIV Treatment Burden
25%
69%
Africa's Share of the World's Health Workforce
Put this into AIDS context, burden of AIDS is even higher, while scaling up, have region with greatest need, fewest workers available, and on top of it AIDS is killing staff. Mozambique – over 20% of staff in a hospital visited are on reduced workload, 5% disclosed HIV positive, nurses particularly affected, females higher prevalence, nurses most affected. efforts
1.8 %

3. We are getting closer: The year 2000 price shift and beyond
Prices (US$/year) of a first-line antiretroviral regime in Uganda:
Launch of Accelerating Access Initiative (AAI)
Negotiation with R&D Pharma within AAI
Price US$
Generic companies offer of price reduction to Uganda
Further discussion with Generics
Negotiations with J. Clinton Foundation with 4 genetic companies
Further price reductions by R&D
Further discussion with Generics
When UNAIDS launched its Drug Access Initiative in 1997/98, the prevailing price for a triple combination antiretroviral regimne was between ten and twelve thousand dollars per patient per year. Today the price for a ARV treatment per person per year on offer to Least Developed Countries is just under US $600 for the least expensive brand name combination, and just under US $300 for a generic combination. In October 2003, the Clinton Foundation announced a price of US $ 140 per person per year (less than 50 cents per day) for a first line generic combination. We heard from Serbia yesterday a terrible story of exorbitant prices. Our policy is to push for low prices also in middle income and transition countries, and we have been doing so with only limited success. I hope when we get to the slide on TRIPS and trade rules you will agree that governments have it within their own spheres of control to get much lower prices than they are presently getting in Slovenia, Russia and other countries.
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Price reductions of a first line ARV regimen in Uganda

4. … a combination of strategies to obtain affordable medicines:
Differential pricing
Generic competition
Voluntary licensing
Flexibilities in TRIPS
High volume purchases
Local production
Elimination of tariffs and taxes
This slide lists some mechanisms that can play a part making HIV medicines more affordable. We could spend a long time discussing each mechanism, but with the shortness of time I will just touch on a few.

5. Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Report of the Third Board Meeting (10-11 October 2002)
C. PROCUREMENT AND PRICING …
10. Lowest possible price
… The Fund encourages Recipients to comply with national laws and applicable international obligations in the field of intellectual property including the flexibilities provided in the TRIPS agreement and referred to in the Doha Declaration in a manner that achieves the lowest possible price for products of assured quality.

6. The TRIPS Agreement Granted for a minimum of 20 years
Compliance with required standards
Effective use of TRIPS flexibility depend upon national legislation
Authorization to produce, sale and import the patented product or process without the consent of the patent holder

7. Grounds for using Compulsory Licensing
Public non-commercial use/Government use
National emergency
Circumstances of extreme urgency
Voluntary license from the patent holder on reasonable commercial terms (Art. 31b)
Anti-competitive practices (Art. 8; 40)

8. Use of the TRIPS flexibilities Granting of Compulsory Licences - Article 31
Indonesia (Oct 2004) for lamivudine (Glaxo) and nevirapine (BI)
Malaysia (Oct 2003) for didanosine (BMS), zidovudine (Glaxo) and lamivudine-zidovudine (Glaxo)
Mozambique for lamivudine (Glaxo), stavudine (BMS) and nevirapine (BI)
Zambia for lamivudine, stavudine and nevirapine
Zimbabwe – for ARVs in general

9. Parallel Imports Purchasing drugs at a lower price
To promote pricing equity by authorizing importation of a patented product
Principle of international exhaustion of rights (Art. 6)

10. The Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health (Doha, Qatar - November 2001)
Primacy of public health in international trade
“… the Agreement can and should be interpreted and implemented in a manner supportive of WTO Members’ right to protect public health and, in particular, to promote access to medicines for all.” (Paragraph 4)
Reaffirmed WTO Members ability to use the flexibilities of the TRIPS Agreement

11. Doha - Importing under Compulsory Licensing
“Each Member has the right to grant compulsory licences and the freedom to determine the grounds upon which such licences are granted”. (Paragraph 5 a.)
Paragraph 6 issue - “ … predominantly for the supply of the domestic market” - TRIPS Art. 31 (f)
Transition period for least developed country Members to provide patent protection for pharmaceutical products extended to 2016

12. WTO 30 August Decision of 2003
“… allows any member country to import and export pharmaceutical products made under Compulsory Licences within the terms set out in the decision »
Amendment allowing export of generic pharmaceuticals under a Compulsory License
To help WTO Members with insufficient manufacturing capacity

13. World Health Assembly resolutions
Resolution WHA57.27 in May 2003 expressed "concerns about the current patent protection system, especially as regards access to medicines in developing countries", and urged Member states to "adapt national legislation in order to use to the full the flexibilities contained in the TRIPS Agreement"
Resolution WHA57.14 of 22 May 2004 urged Member States to "encourage that bilateral trade agreements take into account the flexibilities contained in the WTO TRIPS Agreement and recognized by the Doha Ministerial Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health".

14. Intellectual Property Rights provisions in FTAs A TRIPS-plus world?
Adoption of more stringent IPR regime – beyond 20 years
Undermine the TRIPS flexibilities, Doha Declaration and the WTO 30 August Decision
Limit or delay access to affordable medicines
Data exclusivity for pharmaceutical test data
Drug Regulatory Authorities to enforce patents