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WTO’s agreement on trade related aspects of intellectual property right threatens to limit and undermine access to new medicines, especially to poor populations living in the developing world. Trade and movement of infected cattle and poultry across national borders have contributed to recent outbreaks of mad cow disease in the northern hemisphere and avian influenza in Asia. SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) is the best contemporary example of the rapid spread of a hitherto unknown and virulent viral pathogen through travel of infected humans. SARS was first recognized in Vietnam in Feb. 2003. By the first week of May 2003, 30 countries on six continents has reported a total of more than 7000 cases. Globalization and Risks to Health 2.6 billion people live on less than $2 per day. 1 billion people entered the 21st century unable to read or sign their names. 640 million children live without adequate shelter. 400 million children have no access to safe water. Poorest 40% of the world population account for 5% of global income. The richest 20% account for 75% of the world income. Because the market works and rewards more highly the more able and productive, the global economy would be enriched in the long run if we have the global polity to address the inequality and poverty issues. Poverty Culture is the way of life to a group of people. It includes code of manners, dress, language, religion, rituals, and norms of behavior. The drives of today’s rapid globalization are improving methods and systems of international transportation, devising revolutionary and innovative information technologies and services, and dominating the international commerce in services and ideas. Their impact affects life styles, religion, language and every other component of culture. The United States dominates this global traffic in information and ideas. In some countries, these ideas are corrupting. Many governments have aggressively sought to restrict the software and progr