News Link n. 50

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 50

PEPFAR at 10 

International AIDS Advocates Demand China Give $1 Billion to Global Fund 

Full coverage: Sixty-sixth World Health Assembly

World Health Assembly: Groups Seek To Return Focus To ‘Broken’ Medical R&D System 

World Health Assembly: Members Agree On Health R&D Consultative Meeting Proposal 

Updated: “Final” version of the text for the CEWG “Decisions Point”

LDC Fight For Extension Of TRIPS Transition Continues 

Tax on the “private” billions now stashed away in havens enough to end extreme world poverty twice over

CALLS FOR TRANSPARENCY AHEAD OF G8

Raising and Spending Domestic Money for Health

Citizens in poor EU states can’t afford medicines, health promoters say

EU Parliament Backs Start Of Transatlantic FTA Negotiations

POST 2015: Un’agenda per il futuro della cooperazione allo sviluppo

EPO Still Granting Patents On Conventional Vegetables; ‘Just Following Rules’ 

World Bank Group President Urges Countries to Deliver Universal Health Coverage to Help End Poverty 

Research-based pharmaceutical industry launches „Do You Mind?‟ campaign to fight mental and neurological disorders

Who Runs the (Global Health) World?

Live from the Trans Pacific Partnership: IP Chapter Shows No Sign of Resolution, End of Negotiation in 2013 Highly Unlikely

Countries must fix critical access to medicines flaws in Trans-Pacific Trade Pact 

The Global Fund Opens Up 

UNITAID WELCOMES WHO APPROVAL OF SEMI-SYNTHETIC VERSION OF KEY INGREDIENT IN MALARIA DRUG

Greening: We must break the cycle of food shortages in Western Africa

Phasing Out Fee-for-Service Payment

A conversation with Nick Kristof, humanitarian provocateur

USAID declares water is critical to global development

AfDB Launches New Information Highways