News Link n. 19

 

The news links are part of the research project GESPAM (Geopolitica, Salute Pubblica e Accesso alle Medicine/Geopolitics, Public Health and Access to Medicines), which aims to focus on the best options for the use of trade and government rules related to public health by resource-limited countries.

 

 

 

News Link 19

-India Ratifies Nagoya Protocol On Biodiversity Access And Benefit-Sharing   http://www.ip-watch.org/2012/10/05/india-ratifies-nagoya-protocol-on-bio…

-ONG: la cooperazione è una priorità http://www.cooperazioneallosviluppo.esteri.it/pdgcs/italiano/news/viewne…

-Calls for adoption of Financial Transaction Tax as way forward for global development http://www.unitaid.eu/resources/news/releases/1001-the-globalization-of-…

-A $400,000 Drug and Why It Matters for Global Health  http://blogs.cgdev.org/globalhealth/2012/09/a-400000-drug-and-why-it-matters-for-global-health.php

-South-South Cooperation Comes to WIPO  http://ictsd.org/i/news/bridgesweekly/146488/

-BANGLADESH: Urbanization strains health care http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96466/BANGLADESH-Urbanization-strains-health-care

-US department of Commerce heavily redacts FOIA request regarding Thailand compulsory license http://keionline.org/node/1563

-General Statement of India to the WIPO General Assembly 2012 (raises concerns on public health and green technology) http://keionline.org/node/1558

-Land grabs Q&A | Oxfam International http://www.oxfam.org/en/grow/landgrabs/questions-answers

-Video of the Week: Turning the Tide on Global Hunger http://blog.usaid.gov/2012/10/video-of-the-week-turning-the-tide-on-glob…

-What the World’s Hungry Would Have Liked to Hear Last Night http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-mike-honda/what-the-worlds-hungry-wo_b…

-Nature Examines Future Of AMFm  http://globalhealth.kff.org/Daily-Reports/2012/October/03/GH-100312-AMFm-Future.aspx#.UG_pl3hN2n8.email

-Europe and global health: looking for a leader http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2812%2961…  

-MSF Launches Patent Opposition Database http://www.ip-watch.org/?p=23788&utm_source=post&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alerts

-External Financial Aid to Blood Transfusion Services in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Need for Reflection  http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001309

-Who Sets the Global Health Research Agenda? The Challenge of Multi-Bi Financing http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001312

-Scientists Debate Climate Change Impacts on Tropical Diseases http://www.ipsnews.net/2012/09/scientists-debate-climate-change-impacts-…

-Missing in Africa: How Obama Failed to Engage an Increasingly Important Continent  http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/138158/todd-moss/missing-in-africa

-Increased Cases Of Polio Reported In Nigeria  http://www.npr.org/2012/10/01/162071418/nigeria-reports-increase-in-polio-cases?sc=emaf

-UGANDA: Concern over allegations of misuse of Global Fund money http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96431/UGANDA-Concern-over-allegations-of-…

-On TPP Secrecy, US And Five Others Decline To Answer UN  http://www.ip-watch.org/?p=23764&utm_source=post&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alerts

-‘Some progress, but aid is still not transparent’ http://www.devex.com/en/news/79315/print

-A new entity for the negotiation of public procurement prices for  patented medicines in Mexico  http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/90/10/12-106633.pdf

-Public health round-up  http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/90/10/12-011012.pdf

-World Bank brass heads to Tokyo http://www.devex.com/en/news/79362/print

-Jim Yong Kim wants a more efficient, flexible World Bank http://www.devex.com/en/news/79378/print

-WHO Prequalifies A New Artemisinin-Based Combination Treatment (ACT) for Malaria. Artesunate-Mefloquine Fixed-Dose Combination (ASMQ FDC) to be rolled out throughout Asia http://www.dndi.org/press-releases/1275-asmqprequal.html

-EU seeks a new focus on resilience building http://www.devex.com/en/news/79365/print