UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health Enters Kenyan Court Challenge to Anti-Counterfeiting Bill

The East African Standard has reported that Anand Grover, the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health, Anand Grover will “intervene as an interested party to support the constitutional principles of access to essential medicines” in a court case against the Kenyan Anti-Counterfeiting bill. Health advocates have warned that the bill contains loose definitions of “counterfeit” that will allow patent owning firms to block legitimate generic medicines.

For more, see: Evelyn Kwamboka. “High Court Enjoins UN in Case Against Generic ARVs Ban. The Standard. January 17, 2011.

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    Mike Palmedo is the admin for infojustice.org, and he manages interdisciplinary research on copyright exceptions at American University College of Law's Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property. He has Masters degrees Economics and in International Affairs, and is an economics PhD candidate.

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