Wrtg 393 Assignment #1 Summer 2013

The Purpose Statement The problem to be addressed in this study pertains to the impact of International Trade Agreement (ITA) and Intellectual Property Laws (IPL) on the availability of the anti-retro viral drugs in the developing countries. The countries which have been taken as focus of this study are African and some Asian countries which have shown to have disproportionate cases of AIDS because of which WHO (World Health Organisation) has formulated certain provisions to facilitate the fair and smooth availability of these drugs across the world especially in the developing countries against which the pharmaceutical companies are biased because of the lesser profits generated from these countries. (Rosenburg, 2001)Historical BackgroundThe health environment refers to the exposure and availability of the health care facilities and medicines across the world which is governed and affected to a large extent by the Intellectual Property Law (IPL) and International Trade Agreement (ITA). This very fact led the author of this proposal to undertake this study because there are several clashes between World Trade Organizations (WTO) members and health care activists regarding the provision of ART. These IP laws and ITA are important to manage