Kenya

Pfizer Sues Kenyan Importer of Generics

March 19, 2007. Peter Munyi and Christa Cepuch from Health Action International. Pfizer launches first-ever challenge at the IP Tribunal.

January 19, 2007. Jeff Otieno for the Nation. Kenya: Row Over Import of Drugs.

Debate Over Amendments to the Industrial Property Act

July 24, 2006. Women Fighting AIDS in Kenya, Action Aid, and the Kenya Treatment Access Movement. Our Lives Over Patent Rights!
News Stories
July 28, 2006. Philip Ngunjiri for the Nation. Reprieve As Karua Acts to Keep Aids Drugs Cheap.
July 25, 2006. Richard Chesos for the East African Standard. Change in Patent Law to Raise Cost of Drugs By 300 Percent.
July 25, 2006. Richard Chesos for the East African Standard. NGOs Oppose Law Change.
February 6, 2004. Dagi Kimani for the East African. Licence Delays Kenya's Free ARVs Treatment Roll-Out.

Supplies of Discounted Antiretrovirals from Bristol-Myers Squibb Interrupted

NGO Documents
- April 16, 2002. Kenya Coalition for Access to Essential Medicines. Regular Shortages of Key HIV/AIDS Medicines Threaten Patients' Health.
- March 18, 2002. Letter from the Kenya Coalition for Access to Essential Medicines to Bristol-Myers Squibb regarding a Supply crisis of ddI and d4T in Kenya.
News Stories
- April 18, 2002. Business Day. Antiretroviral supply to Kenyans disrupted.
- April 16, 2002. UN Integrated News Network. Coalition Decries "Regular" Shortage of AIDS Drugs.
- April 16, 2002. Chris Tomlinson for the Associated Press. Kenyan HIV/AIDS patients face periodic shortages of drugs, hampering treatment.

Kenyan Parliament Passes New Intellectual Property Bill

Statements

June 25, 2001. Rep. Maxine Waters. Letter to Francis X. Ole Kaparo, Speaker of the House of the Kenyan Parliament.
June 14, 2001. MSF Press Release. Landmark Victory for Patient Rights Over Patent Protection.
May 10, 2001. Kenya Coalition on Access to Essential Medicines press release. Critical Moment for Kenya Industrial Property Bill.
November 7, 2000. Kenya Coalition on Access to Essential Medicines press release. Kenya coalition urges government not to trade long-term rights in deal with drug companies.
April 4, 2000, Pascal Boulet, MSF, Patent protection of medicines in Kenya and Uganda. This document has exentisve information on current intellectual property protection in Kenya, as well as an explanation of the new IP legislation.

News Stories

June 13, 2001. Katy Salmon for VOA News. Kenya Passes AIDS Drug Bill.
June 12, 2001. The Associated Press. Kenya to Allow Cheaper AIDS Drugs.
June 9, 2001. UN Integrated Regional Information Network. Make Or Break Time for Kenyan HIV/AIDS Drugs Legislation
June 8, 2001. Associated Press story in the Times of India. Kenyans Open Debate on AIDS Drugs.
May 21, 2001. Polly Markandya (Médecins Sans Frontières) op-ed in the Financial Times. Patents focus shifts to Kenya and West Africa.
April 22, 2002. BBC News. Kenya readies Aids drugs law.
March 7, Waweru Mugo and Mike Mwaniki in the Daily Nation. Generic Aids drugs imports likely.
BBC News. Kenya pushes for cheap AIDS drugs.

Other Information

November 15, 2001. Kenya Coalition for Access to Medicines. Doha Puts Life Before Profit.
May 27, 2001. Medicines Sans Frontiers press release. US Secretary of State Colin Powell must prove American intent in struggle against AIDS/HIV.
November 7, 2000,Press Release, Kenya Coalition On Access To Essential Medicines, Kenya coalition urges government not to trade long-term rights in deal with drug companies

News Stories, General

September 27, 2004. Dagi Kimani for the East African. Kenya's Cosmos Now Signs Deal to Make Nevirapine for EA.
September 19, 2003. BBC. Kenya to make Aids drugs.
May 21, 2003. Rory Carroll for the Guardian. Africa's Aids drugs trapped in the laboratory: Kenya has the pills. Now the fight is on to get them to the people.
September 11, 2002. Jeff Otieno for the Nairobi Nation. Kenya to Import Cheaper Aids Drugs.
September 11, 2002. Victor Bwire for the East African Standard. Build Plants in Kenya, Govt Tells HIV/Aids Drugs Firms.
August 14, 2002. Reuters. Kenya Expands AIDS Control Program for Mothers.
May 20, 2002. UN Integrated Regional Information Network. Anti-HIV/Aids Groups Demand Urgency to Match Crisis.
May 20, 2002. Alfred Oduor for the East African Standard. Nairobi to Make HIV/Aids Drugs.
November 16, 2001. Katy Salmon for VOA News. Health Experts: Kenya Can Benefit From Looser Patent Restrictions on Drugs.
November 9, 2001. Victor Bwire And Samuel Otieno for the East African Standard. Govt Negotiating Importation of Cheap Aids Drugs.
October 10, 2001. The Nation. HIV/Aids Drug Imports Blocked By WTO.
June 7, 2001. Joseph Sunday for the Nation. Generics: Is It About Price or Quality?
May 19, 2001. Dennis Onyango for the Nation. A Cross-Roads On Cheap AIDS Drugs.
February 24, 2001, Dagi Kimani in the The Daily Nation. Why Not Take Up Offer of Cheaper AIDS Drugs?
February 24, 2001, UN Integrated Regional Information Network. Anger Over Drug Prices
February 22, 2001. Karl Vick in the Washington Post. Kenyan Orphanage Takes Initiative on AIDS Drugs.
December 10, 2000, Dagi Kimani, in The East African (Nairobi), Aids Drugs Still Too Expensive In Africa
December 8, 2000, Mike Mwaniki, in the Nation (Nairobi), Team Set Up Over Drug Cost
November 7, 2000, James Astill, in the Guardian, Slashed drug costs 'will not touch Kenya's Aids crisis'
November 4, 2000, Claire Gatheru, in the Nation (Nairobi), Kenyans Advised On Patent Rights
November 3, 2000, Dagi Kimani, in the East African, Aids Vaccine Trials in Doubt After Patent Row
November 1, 2000, The Nation (Nairobi), Bill May Provide A Solution to the Growing Pandemic
November 1, 2000, The Nation (Nairobi), Make AIDS Drugs Affordable To All
October 23, 2000, Eric Ombok, in African Church Information Service, Experts Seek to Review Legislation on Patent System
October 20, 2000, Cathy Jenkins, in BBC News, Truce over Aids vaccine row
October 20, 2000, Arthur Okwembah, in the Nation, AIDS Vaccine Experts Start Tense Meeting
October 19, 2000, The East African, Our Bodies, Our Vaccine
October 19, 2000, BBC News, Row over AIDS Vaccine
October 19, 2000, The Nation, AIDS Patent Blow to Kenyans
October 14, 2000, M.G. Kimani, in the Daily Nation, Science and the myth of British fair play
October 14, 2000, Tervil Okoko, in the Pan African News Agency, Row Over AIDS Vaccine Patent
December 4, 1999, Karl Vick, in The Washington Post, African AIDS Victims Losers of a Drug War

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