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0261/2025 - TENSIONS OF SOCIAL HUMAN RIGHTS IN ENSURING ACCESS TO MEDICINES.
TENSÕES DOS DIREITOS HUMANOS SOCIAIS NA GARANTIA DO ACESSO A MEDICAMENTOS.

Author:

• Miriam Ventura - Ventura, M - <miriam.ventura@iesc.ufrj.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8520-8844


Abstract:

Ensuring access to medicines is a state human rights (HR) obligation derived from the right to health, interdependent and interrelated with other HR, such as the right to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and the right to protection of intellectual property. The structures and relationships of international politics have been affected by intense global trade flows, rules, and institutional dynamics that reduce the responsiveness of states and increase vulnerability to preventable disease and death. The study critically analyzes the regulations of the United Nations International Health System, responsible for monitoring, in three categories: Innovation, scientific research and intellectual property; Market, price and affordability; Interventions in health systems. There is a minimization of the ethical-political perspective of human rights, the protection of people and vulnerable populations, the social function of intellectual property and scientific progress in access to medicines. The regulations express concerns pertinent to human rights, but adopt liberal measures restricted to economic efficiency and rationing in favor of the sustainability of the system, which prove to be ineffective in guaranteeing access to health.

Keywords:

Human Rights, Global Health, Access to Medicines, Internacional Legislation and Jurisprudence

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