The World Health Organization has recently released the ‘World Health Statistics 2008’. To quote from the introduction of the Report
World Health Statistics 2008 presents the most recent available health statistics for WHO’s 193 Member States. This fourth edition includes 10 highlights of health statistics as well as data on an expanded set of over 70 key health indicators. The indicators were selected on the basis of their relevance to global health monitoring and considerations of data availability, accuracy and comparability among Member States.
World Health Statistics 2008 has been collated from publications and databases produced by WHO’s technical programmes and regional offices, as well as from publicly accessible databases.
The reason we’re blogging about this report is because this report can be expected to be an important tool in the compulsory licensing debate especially for Section 92A licenses, which are compulsory licenses for export. Coming for the WHO the report should be considered to be credible. Readers may also remember that Justice Ravinder Bhat in the Tarceva matter had lamented on the lack of adequate data in regards the number of people suffering from lung cancer in the country – data which may alter the outcome of the case. Hopefully sustained efforts such as this one by WHO will help bridge the information deficit in this crucial field.
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Back to our GI topic, the CSIR example demonstrates that the real challenge is to convert impressive GI registration numbers to bigger markets and more money for these communities. Particularly when the international markets for GI products are growing rapidly. I spoke with the owner of Nathmulls, a very reputed tea chain in Darjeeling who claims that the international market for Darjeeling tea is over 5 times of what is currently exported! The various GI communities along with the government has to come together and brainstorm to figure out ways of leveraging their GI's to capture more markets.