The East African Standard has reported that Anand Grover, the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health, Anand Grover will “intervene as an interested party to support the constitutional principles of access to essential medicines” in a court case against the Kenyan Anti-Counterfeiting bill. Health advocates have warned that the bill contains loose definitions of “counterfeit” that will allow patent owning firms to block legitimate generic medicines.
For more, see: Evelyn Kwamboka. “High Court Enjoins UN in Case Against Generic ARVs Ban. The Standard. January 17, 2011.