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Author Archives: Beverley Snell
Vale Radha Holla Bhar
Radha Holla Bhar 1953 – 2021 Radha was one of the most intelligent among her peer group. She could grasp complicated subjects whether related to medicines, food, nutrition, agriculture, or even trade. She had tremendous capacity to analyse and write … Continue reading
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Pandemic Profiteering
Ken Harvey has shared with us a talk he gave to the Global Health Course at the Australian National University recently. He address the Australian context but covers issues relevant everywhere. He covers • Exorbitant pharmaceutical profits despite public funding.• … Continue reading
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Industry support for patients groups – risky business
By Lisa Bero and Lisa Park AustralianPrescriber Volume 44 : Number 3 : June 2021Read the whole article here Health consumer organisations can include groups specific to a particular condition, such as the Heart Foundation, and health system advocacy groups, … Continue reading
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The political economy of COVID-19 vaccines
Jayati Ghosh Vaccine grabs, the refusal to relax patents to enable mass production, and the use of vaccines for diplomacy run the risk that poorer nations may not be protected against COVID-19 quickly enough. This will prolong the pandemic, even … Continue reading
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2021 HAIAP 40th Anniversary
2021 is the 40th anniversary of HAIAP !!The founders – Dr Mira Shiva, Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury and Dato Anwar Fazal have met e to consider what to do to mark this important anniversary. A celebratory (Zoom) meeting will be held … Continue reading
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Proposal for TRIPS waiver for Covid-19 related medicines and technologies secures strong support from LMICs
In a landmark move, India and South Africa on 2 October asked the World Trade Organization (WTO) to allow all countries to choose to neither grant nor enforce patents and other intellectual property (IP) related to COVID-19 drugs, vaccines, diagnostics and … Continue reading
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Tribute to Professor Seneka Bibile by Sri Lankan medical student
Fourth year medical student and President, Students Involved in Rational Health Activities (SIRHA), Chamath Lavinda has written a brief history of Sri Lankan national drug policy. He describes Professor Bibile as the seed that produced a tree that bore the … Continue reading
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COVID-19 Crisis and WTO: Why India and South Africa’s Proposal on Intellectual Property is Important
by Ellen ‘t Hoen, Director, Medicines Law & Policy Read the complete blog published in The Wire here On October 2, India and South Africa sent a proposal to the World Trade Organisation (WTO), asking that it allow countries to suspend the protection … Continue reading
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Tribute to Indian Health Workers
On October 2, the Indian Medical Association (IMA) released a poster carrying the names and photographs of 515 doctors — 492 males and 23 females — who died on the line of duty while treating Covid-19 patients. The poster is … Continue reading
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Medicines Quality Research Group Report; Indian task force strategy to control Covid-19 while avoiding lockdown and false vaccine hopes; Setbacks to WHO plan for global vaccine access.
1. A report prepared by the Medicine Quality Research Group, Centre of Tropical Medicine & Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford of products that have been found to be poor quality or falsified in some way during the pandemic. The July report including … Continue reading
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