ECONOMIC CRISIS AND ACCESS TO ESSENTIAL MEDICINES: AWARDING PRIZES FOR DRUG INNOVATION AS A WAY OF ENDING WASTEFUL MONOPOLIES THAT PREVENT AFFORDABLE MEDICINES “The current system is incredibly wasteful and constantly gamed by Big Pharma. The prize fund approach would…
Category: a2m
High price of medicines becomes political issue in EU
Both Greece and Spain have taken unilateral measures to try to bring down the price of patented medicines purchased by public health systems that are now under special stress due to the public debt crisis of these countries. A conservative…
Spain confronts big pharma on drug prices
The Spanish Government has challenged the price of patented medicines as it has taken a number of major steps announced this week to reduce the pharmaceutical expenditure of the public health system (23%). The new measures together with Spanish regional…
EU Council Conclusions on Global Health embrace A2M proposals
8. As regards to research and evidence based dialogue and action, the Council calls on the EU and its Member States to promote effective and fair financing of research that benefits the health of all. Towards that aim the EU…
Remarks from floor at MDG conference at EP
Thank you Michael Cashman MEP for organizing this important event on the Millenium Development Goals. As others have said we have to get as far as we can on the money we have, especially to provide more access to essential…
ACCESS TO MEDICINE, BIG PHARMA AND PATENTS
For many poor citizens of the South the access to essential medicines is often a question of life or death while in the European Union and in the US the present cost of medical drugs is meaning a growing financial…
“Getting to know you”, Haiti and bitter medicine for the poor
http://www.davidhammerstein.com/article–getting-to-know-you-haiti-and-bitter-medicine-for-the-poor-who-2–43368770.html At a crucial moment of this week´s meeting at the WHO, in the midst of a heated debate between the South and rich countries on access to medicine, Director General Margaret Chan decided to open up a three hour…
EU and US block moves for greater access to essential medicines for world´s poor
The battle lines have been drawn at the World Health Organization this week in Geneva. On one side many countries from the South, led by Brazil, India and Bolivia supported by NGOs, are pushing for changes to guarantee much greater…