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You probably haven't heard of the international agreement known by the acronym TRIPS P S or Trips. But according to Yale Professor German-born Thomas Pogue,

it's an economic regulation responsible for the death of millions. Trips stands for the agreement on trade-related aspects

of intellectual property rights. Among other things, Trippes makes it illegal for say

an Indian pharmaceutical company to make generic drugs locally and

cheaply when these drugs are under a patent even if the copy drugs could save many lives.

POGI, who was taught and heavily influenced by the US political

theorist John Rules, is a key figure in the global justice movement.

Thomas POGI, welcome to Philosophy Bites.

Hello?

The topic we're going to focus on is global justice and health.

Before we get onto the health aspect, could you just say roughly what global justice means for you?

Global justice is mainly focused on the assessment of global institutional arrangements.

In the recent decades we've seen a tremendous increase in the density and influence of global

institutions, global rules and they reach into people's lives now to a much greater

extent than they've ever done before.

On the other hand, the way these rules get made

is not particularly transparent, it's certainly not particularly democratic,

and so we have to think about what the impact of these rules is and how we might maybe design them better.

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