News Link n. 27

 

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 27

“Good health at low cost”: il caso Etiopia  http://www.saluteinternazionale.info/2012/11/good-health-at-low-cost-il-caso-etiopia/

New Nestlé Chinese Medicine and World Health Organization  http://www.examiner.com/article/new-nestl-chinese-medicine-and-world-health-organization?cid=rss 

New PEPFAR blueprint paves way toward AIDS-free generation https://www.devex.com/en/news/79855/print

WHO Members Agree On “Strategic Work Plan” On Health R&D – But No Convention  http://www.ip-watch.org/?p=25034&utm_source=post&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alerts 

WHO Members Agree On Roadmap To Fight Poor Quality Medicines  http://www.ip-watch.org/?p=24860&utm_source=post&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alerts

Event This Week: The Creation Of Unitary Patent Protection In The European Union  http://www.ip-watch.org/?p=24941&utm_source=post&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alerts

Medicines Patent Pool Statement on Johnson & Johnson’s Darunavir Announcement http://www.medicinespatentpool.org/medicines-patent-pool-statement-on-johnson-johnson%E2%80%99s-darunavir-announcement/

Pharma Companies Improving Access To Medicines But Lack Oversight Of Outsourced Clinical Trials, Analysis Says  http://globalhealth.kff.org/Daily-Reports/2012/November/28/GH-112812-Access-To-Medicine-Index.aspx

Drug industry’s influence over research  http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/as-drug-industrys-influence-over-research-grows-so-does-the-potential-for-bias/2012/11/24/bb64d596-1264-11e2-be82-c3411b7680a9_story_1.html

Conflicted influences  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/business/NEJM-articles/index.html

Scientists and drug company connections  http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/scientists-and-drug-company-connections/2012/11/24/f4711d8e-36a1-11e2-9cfa-e41bac906cc9_graphic.html

World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim Opening Remarks at Neglected Tropical Diseases Conference, Washington DC http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/2012/11/16/neglected-tropical-diseases-conference.print

More infectious HIV strains spreading in India  http://www.scidev.net/en/south-asia/news/more-infectious-hiv-strains-spreading-in-india.html

Statement by the President on the Observance of World AIDS Day http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/11/29/statement-president-observance-world-aids-day 

Treatment Action Group’s 2012 Report on Tuberculosis Research Funding Trends, 2005–2011 http://www.treatmentactiongroup.org/tbrd2012

Mumbai Grapples With Drug Resistant TB Strain  http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324894104578115232986766350.html

China considers easing family planning rules http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/28/us-china-family-idUSBRE8AR06A20121128

China bans hospitals from refusing patients with HIV-AIDS http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/11/23/china-bans-hospitals-from-refusing-patients-with-hiv-aids/#ixzz2DC9BnIBL

What You Need to Know About Foreign Aid (And Why We Need to Protect It) http://www.impatientoptimists.org/en/Posts/2012/11/Protect-EU-Aid-Its-a-Smart-Investment

India Skirts Patent Laws to Help Companies and Poor  http://m.spiegel.de/international/world/a-869601.html#spRedirectedFrom=www

The US Proposal for IP Enforcement in the TPPA and Impacts for Developing Countries http://keionline.org/node/1614