Abstract
Health is recognized as an important development indicator. Health is also recognized as one of the key Human Rights under the International Covenant on Economic Social and cultural Rights (ICESCR). However, the current political economic structures especially the international law related to trade, investment and intellectual property rights, prevent the realization of right to health. These international regimes basically incapacitate developing countries from fulfilling its international obligations on right to health. In short the policy space for countries to ensure supply of affordable medicine is very little. The current international engagements of developed countries in the area of medicine are primarily aiming to protect the interest of pharmaceutical transnational corporations. The people of developed countries are not benefiting from this approach especially during the current austerity era. Since medicine is an essential component for the realization of right to health there is a need to reconfigure the approach to medicine from the realist concept of power.
