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pharmaceuticals sector guidelines pass the UN test

A set of human rights guidelines for pharmaceuticals companies has been accepted by the United Nations.

The guidelines, which have a strong focus on how the sector can improve access to the two billion people in developing countries who lack essential medicines, have been drawn up by Paul Hunt, a UN special rapporteur on how states and others can ‘promote and protect the right to the highest attainable standard of health’.

Consulted upon and successively re-drafted over the past tw...

 
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