Étude de cas de l'accord de voyage

A specific export licence in the system under paragraph 6 was exercised. In this case, the license was used by a Canadian company to ship drugs to Rwanda (see case study). NOTES: 1.- See Patrick Orege, The Need for Antiretrovirals, Sunday Standard (Nairobi), August 29, 2004, P. 20. back to text 2.- See Noel Wandera, New Health Plan to Benefit Aids Patients, East African Standard (Nairobi), national news section, 27 August 2004, p. 4. 3.- See Daily Nation Article, August 27, 2004. back to text 4.- See the Kenya AIDS Monitoring Initiative (KAWI) on the www.kenyaaidinstitute website. (last time on October 22, 2004). Back to text 5.- Ibid. Back to text 6.- Ibid.

back to text 7.- Aspects of TRIPS and the patent problem regarding access to AIDS drugs in Kenya have been identified in three of my studies: Ben Sihanya, Constructing Copyright and Creativity in Kenya: Cultural Politics and the Political Economy of Intellectual Property, JSD (doktor) essay, Stanford Law School, 2003 (Book, 2005); Ben Sihanya, TRIPS and Access to Drugs, Food and the Relevant Technologies in Kenya: Reforming Intellectual Property and Trade Laws for Sustainable Development, research report for EcoNews Africa (Nairobi), on addressing the impact of the intellectual property regime under the TRIPS Agreement preparations for the Cancn WTO meeting, 2003; Ben Sihanya, Patent Wars Raging over Aids Cure, Daily Nation, Opinion: Pandemic, 17 dec. 2003, 9. See Arthur Okwemba, Kenya Now Producing Aids Drugs: But Subtle Pressure Is already Being Put On Government to Stop Licensing, Daily Nation, Horizon, Science/Technology/The World of Ideas, Avril 1, 2004, p. 23-4; Correspondent, Move by Pharmaceuticals Could Limit US Funding, ebd., 23. back to text 8.- It is significant, though ironic, that the 1989 law was enacted in part to protect Kenyan scientists and the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) before claiming that they had invented an AIDS drug, Kemron. Back to text 9.- See art. 28, 30, 31, 32 of the agreement ON TRIPS and Part VII (ss.