1. Civil Society Strategy Meeting on the Future of Access to Medicines Bangkok, 13-15 December 2011 Intellectual Property/Trade and Access to Medicines Session I: Revisiting the Past and Current/Emerging Issues: Regional Review and Assessments of Strategies used to Date LATIN AMERICA

2. FRANCISCO ROSSI – Colombia – IFARMA LORENA DI GIANNO – Argentina – Argentinian Network of Women Living with HIV/AIDS MARCELA VIEIRA – Brazil – Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association ROBERTO LOPEZ – Peru -Acción Internacional para la Salud

3. USING TRIPS FLEXIBILITIES - Brazil: compulsory license for ARV efavirenz (problems with the quality of the patent) Ecuador: legal framework for CL - Brazil: pre-grant patent oppositions – tenofovir, kaletra, truvada - Brazil, Colombia, Peru - campaign against kaletra

4. SETBACK IN USING TRIPS FLEXIBILITIES - Brazil: weakening of ANVISA’s prior consent - Brazil: voluntary licenses x compulsory licenses (lack of transparency and social control)

5. ADOPTING TRIPS-PLUS MEASURES - Peru, Colombia – data exclusivity impact study - Brazil: 2011 - data exclusivity through Judiciary - Brazil – Bill of laws proposing the adoption of TRIPS-plus measures (linkage)

6. FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS - USTR pressure + CAFTA - Peru, Colombia – US - Peru, Chile: Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) - negotiations with EU - MERCOSUR - EU

7. MOVING FORWARD - UNASUR – BANCO DEL SUR – possibilities for financing innovation - ALIANZA LAC GLOBAL – alternative text for FTAs