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Author Archives: Beverley Snell
Drug promotion, advertising and ethical relationships with industry
When pharmaceutical companies give doctors incentives to learn about their drugs, how much does it influence the doctors’ decision making? Those incentives could come in the form of a free trip to London to speak at a conference or a … Continue reading
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Ethiopia Launches 10-Year Strategy and Plan of Action to Increase Access to Medicines by Transforming Local Pharmaceutical Industry
On 14th July 2015 in Addis Ababa, on the side-lines of 3rd Conference on Financing for Development, the Ethiopian Deputy Prime Minister His Excellency, Mr Demeke Mekonnen, officially launched an ambitious 10-year national strategy and plan of action to develop … Continue reading
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Trans Pacific Partnership
The Trans-Pacific Partnership could be closer than ever to happening, thanks to the US Congress agreeing to ‘fast track’ the TPP’s approval. Groups in the US fought long and hard to stop this, because they know it could speed up agreement … Continue reading
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HAI Europe is conducting a survey of insulin prices to patients
Health Action International (HAI) invites you to participate in a global survey of patient prices of insulin. This survey is part of a project entitled Addressing the Challenge and Constraints of Insulin Sources and Supply ( ‘ACCISS Study’). The project … Continue reading
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Trans Pacific Partnership NEJM
The Transpacific Partnership: is it bad for your health? The New England Journal of Medicines June 10, 2015 Amy Kapczynski, J.D. International trade deals once focused primarily on tariffs. As a result, they had little direct effect on health, and health experts … Continue reading
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Did the WHO just invite corporates to set health policy? CSO Concerns
Information supplied by the Third World Network, Penang Malaysia. The World Health Assembly is meeting in Geneva between May 16 and 26 2015. The Director General of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Dr. Margaret Chan has invited the private sector, … Continue reading
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HANDS Disaster Relief Responds to Nepal Earthquake
HAIAP Network Partner HANDS has responded with assistance for Nepal after the massive earthquake on April 25. Introduction of HANDS Disaster Management Program: Disaster management aims to reduce, or avoid the potential losses from hazards, assure prompt and appropriate assistance … Continue reading
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Don’t Trade Away Our Health: Trans-Pacific Partnership and International Drug Price Fixing
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Nobel Economics Laureate – The New York Times Published on 2 February 2015 at https://www.transcend.org/tms/?p=53353 30 Jan 2015 – A secretive group met behind closed doors in New York this week. What they decided may lead to … Continue reading
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Universal Health Cover: the affordable dream – Amartya Sen
Universal healthcare is often presented as an idealistic goal that remains out of reach for all but the richest nations. That’s not the case, writes Amartya Sen. Look at what has been achieved in Rwanda, Thailand and Bangladesh. For the … Continue reading
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Lancet: Offline: Solving WHO’s “persisting weaknesses” (part 1)
The Lancet Volume 385, No. 9963, p100, 10 January 2015 When the 34 members of WHO’s Executive Board gather in Geneva on Jan 25—first, for a special session on the response to the Ebola outbreak and, second, for its 136th meeting—countries … Continue reading
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