Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM) is a promising and inspiring international student network focusing on access to medicines and biomedical innovation. They have a strong presence in the US and Germany and are growing all over Europe with…
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Patients before Patents – Response to The Economist by MSF and Oxfam
Protect patients, not patents SIR – You argued that “protection should not be weakened” on pharmaceutical patents (“The new drugs war”, January 4th). Drug patents protect drug-companies’ profits, not patients. The industry promotes several myths to justify its outlandish…
FOR A TRANSPARENT, INNOVATIVE AND JUST RESPONSE TO THE CRISIS IN SPANISH PUBLIC HEALTHCARE”
NEW EXPERT AND CIVIL SOCIETY WORKING GROUP LAUNCH The Working Group on Health, Medicines, and Innovation has been launched with the goal of offering inclusive and constructive recommendations on the evaluation of health access, transparency, the management of expensive patented…
Civil Society demands fair solutions to Greek health crisis
There is a fully-fledged access to health care crisis in Greece as a result of the Troika-dictated cuts over the past four years. Three million people or more, exact figures are hard to get due to “Greek statistics”, have…
Notes from a generally non-informative “civil society” meeting on TTIP
Brief chronicle of an obscure, scarcely informative “civil society” meeting on the TransAtlantic Trade and Investment Partnership in Brussels on January 14th, 2014 A few tidbits of Commission statements: The European Court of Justice might “not be…
Big Pharma´s leaked wish list for TTIP EU-US trade pact
PhRMA/EFPIA priorities for TTIP. I. Regulatory issues : Greater regulatory convergence: Ø a built-in agenda allowing for progressive greater regulatory convergence over time. Ø a Working Group on Pharmaceutical and Medical Devices as platform to discuss implementation issues and address…
Acceso a medicamentos e innovación en tiempos de crisis
Durante los últimos meses un grupo de organizaciones y expertos entre los que se encuentran la Confederación Española de Consumidores y Usuarios, Médicos del Mundo, Salud por Derecho, Trans-Atlantic Consumer Dialogue, Farmacéuticos sin Fronteras, No Gracias, Joan Rovira, David del…
TTIP: Full transparency, nothing less
We are in the midst of the mother of all trade negotiations. The EU and the US have already celebrated the second round of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). This is not your ordinary free trade agreement that…
Event summary: Greek Society demands fair access to medicine solutions
Access to medicines crisis in Greece: Society demands fair solutions European Parliament office in Athens, 13 December 2013 Event summary report Conference Overview 130 people showed for the event from…
Momentum for EU ratification of Marrakech Treaty for blind persons
No change in EU law is needed for implementation of right to read Marrakech Treaty European Commission corrects course on Treaty ratification The Marrakech Treaty, agreed upon last June, means applying a global exception to copyright to enable access to…