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Imkamp, Roos (2016)

Health as a Human Right: Impact of the Doha Declaration on the Provision of Anti-AIDS Medication and AIDS-related Mortality Rates in Brazil.

Bachelor thesis | International Studies (BA)

This thesis examines to which extend the Doha declaration, made by the World Trade Organisation in 2001 which promotes the universal access to medication and aims to protect human health, has had an impact on the provision of AIDS medication. In addition, since research has claimed that the provision of AIDS medication causes a drop in AIDS-related mortality rates, the second question which the thesis aims to answer arises whether the provision of the AIDS medication indeed contributed to a higher decrease in the AIDS-related mortality rates. Both questions will be examined in the context of Brazil since this country was the first developing/middle-income country which implemented the provision of free AIDS medication as a national policy. In order to answer both questions, this thesis compares the data found concerning Brazil's provision of the AIDS medication and Brazil's AIDS-related mortality rates, between the period before and after the Doha declaration in 2001. The comparison...Show moreThis thesis examines to which extend the Doha declaration, made by the World Trade Organisation in 2001 which promotes the universal access to medication and aims to protect human health, has had an impact on the provision of AIDS medication. In addition, since research has claimed that the provision of AIDS medication causes a drop in AIDS-related mortality rates, the second question which the thesis aims to answer arises whether the provision of the AIDS medication indeed contributed to a higher decrease in the AIDS-related mortality rates. Both questions will be examined in the context of Brazil since this country was the first developing/middle-income country which implemented the provision of free AIDS medication as a national policy. In order to answer both questions, this thesis compares the data found concerning Brazil's provision of the AIDS medication and Brazil's AIDS-related mortality rates, between the period before and after the Doha declaration in 2001. The comparison of the data shows that a negligible difference can be find in the provision of AIDS medication before and after the Doha declaration in 2001. Nevertheless, the difference in the data of the AIDS-related mortality rates in Brazil is rather significant and represents a high decrease in the AIDS-related mortality rates after the implementation of the Doha declaration in 2001.Show less

AIDS-related mortality rates

Provision of AIDS medication

Brazil

Doha declaration

Author

Imkamp, Roos

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

Latin America

Supervisors

Wiesebron, M.L.
Silva, P.

ECTS Credits

10

Language

en