Intellectual Property Rights: Affordable Drugs

Baroness Altmann Excerpts
Monday 30th November 2020

(3 years, 3 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Fowler Portrait The Lord Speaker (Lord Fowler)
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I call the noble Baroness, Lady Clark of Kilwinning. No? I call the noble Baroness, Lady Altmann.

Baroness Altmann Portrait Baroness Altmann (Con)
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My Lords, how are we assisting countries to take advantage of the flexibilities in the current rules on this TRIPS issue? Can we do more to help them access these drugs affordably?

Lord Grimstone of Boscobel Portrait Lord Grimstone of Boscobel (Con)
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Our posts on the ground well know the importance of this. We try to bring these flexibilities home to these countries through all available channels; one would hope that they would use these flexibilities, as they would be so much to their advantage.