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SDG 3b: patent law and access to medicines

In: The Elgar Companion to Intellectual Property and the Sustainable Development Goals

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  • Emmanuel Kolawole Oke

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The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are holistic, integrated goals that are meant to be considered and pursued as a coherent whole. At the same time, the SDGs, especially SDG 3 on health and well-being, implicate the obligations of states under various branches of international law. A critical concern in this regard is therefore how to synthesise SDGs that are meant to be taken as a whole with the obligations of states under a fragmented international legal system. Specifically, SDG 3b (which is the focus of this chapter) implicates the obligations of states under international human rights law and international economic law. Some of these obligations do conflict with each other. Thus, in seeking to achieve SDG 3b, states need to carefully and strategically consider how their various obligations under international law can be reconciled with their plans and measures to achieve this particular SDG target.

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  • Emmanuel Kolawole Oke, 2024. "SDG 3b: patent law and access to medicines," Chapters, in: Matthew Rimmer & Caroline B. Ncube & Bita Amani (ed.), The Elgar Companion to Intellectual Property and the Sustainable Development Goals, chapter 4, pages 107-123, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:21663_4
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