Prathibha Sivasubramanian (1) at the Doha+10 Conference in Berlin

Action against AIDS Germany organized the international Doha+10 Conference at the Landesvertretung Baden-Württemberg in Berlin on November 24, 2011: 10 years after the 2001 "Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health" -- Has the access to medicine been improved through or in spite of the new World Trade Organization frame conditions?


Prathibha Sivasubramanian
is a Senior Legal Officer working with Lawyers Collective HIV/AIDS Unit
(LCHAU), New Delhi, India. She holds an LLM from Cochin University of
Science and Technology. Her research interests include human rights,
intellectual property and access to medicines. LCHAU works on access to
medicines is based on the premise that the right to health includes the
right to access medicines. LCHAU has been providing pro bono technical
advice and legal representation to networks of PLWHI and other patients'
groups to challenge to patent applications for crucial medicines and in
cases that require defense of India's utilization of TRIPS-flexibilities to
promote public health interests. It is also actively involved in advocacy
and policy research on various issues that affect access to medicines
including intellectual property rights. As a Senior Legal Officer, she has
been involved in LCHAU's litigation,

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