Intellectual property organizations and pharmaceutical patents in Africa

Robert Deiss

Social Science & Medicine, 2007, vol. 64, issue 2, 287-291

Abstract: This article builds on a previous study which found low numbers of patent applications for HIV antiretroviral drugs in African countries. A high level of variation was noted across individual countries, and consequently, the present study has sought to account for sources of the variation through statistical analyses. First, a correlation between the number of patents and HIV infection rate was observed (r=0.448, p

Keywords: Patents; Access; Antiretrovirals; Africa; HIV/AIDS; Intellectual; property; organization; (IPO) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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