Category Archives: Delinkage

Transparency and delinkage embedded into draft UN Political Declaration on Universal Health Coverage

Posted on August 5, 2019 by donttradeourlivesaway

Source: Keionline 5th August, 2019   UPDATE: On 29 July 2019, the co-facilitators (Ambassadors of Georgia and Thailand) of the intergovernmental consultations on a UN political declaration on universal health coverage announced that the silence procedure was broken by “several delegations … Continue reading →

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“Delinkage” Of Medicines R&D From Patent Incentives Stirs Debate at Human Rights Council

Posted on July 9, 2019 by donttradeourlivesaway

Source: Health Policy Watch 9th July, 2019   Only a month after a hotly-contested World Health Assembly resolution touched off a debate around “price transparency” as a way to improve access to medicines, a new controversy over how to stimulate access has emerged … Continue reading →

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Indian Civil Society letter on TB Declaration negotiations -UN High Level Meeting

Posted on August 2, 2018 by donttradeourlivesaway

To, Mr. Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India Mr. J. P. Nadda, Health Minister Ms. Sushma Swaraj, Foreign Minister Mr. Suresh Prabhu, Commerce Minister Date: 31st July 2018 Sub: Asking India to support TRIPS flexibilities in UN High Level Meeting on TB … Continue reading →

Posted in Access to Medecines, Delinkage, R&D, TRIPS, TRIPS flexibilities, Tuberculosis (TB), Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Draft TB declaration: US, EU push against funding, delinkage pledges

Posted on June 20, 2018 by donttradeourlivesaway

Source: POLITICO PRO| June 12, 2018 The EU and U.S. are resisting concrete commitments on new funding for tuberculosis ahead of a high-level U.N. meeting about fighting the world’s top infectious killer. The two regions are also pushing to eliminate language … Continue reading →

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Stakeholder Intervention at 19th RCEP negotiations round- James Love, Knowledge Ecology International

Posted on July 27, 2017 by donttradeourlivesaway

These are the notes I used when providing the KEI comments at the July 25, 2017 civil society stakeholder forum at the 19th round of the RCEP negotiation. My name is James Love. I work for Knowledge Ecology International, an … Continue reading →

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Lexmark: The Supreme Court’s patent exhaustion case and parallel trade in drugs

Posted on June 1, 2017 by donttradeourlivesaway

Source: Knowledge Ecology International The Supreme Court’s decision in IMPRESSION PRODUCTS, INC. v. LEXMARK INTERNATIONAL, INC.  has clarified that the United States has world wide exhaustion of patent rights.   According to Professor Fred Abbott, who knows a lot about this issue, and … Continue reading →

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Better life through medicine—let’s leave no one behind

Posted on May 23, 2017 by donttradeourlivesaway

Source: http://www.thelancet.com The Lancet Commission on Essential Medicines Policies  rightfully addresses the need to guarantee access to essential medicines for all. However, we cannot achieve any real progress without acknowledging that the current patent-based business model and the way we … Continue reading →

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UN High Level Panel report is good prescription for change in access to medicines

Posted on October 20, 2016 by donttradeourlivesaway

Source: PharmaLetter | October 18, 2016 In our weekly expert view piece, Rohit Malpani, director of policy and analysis for Mèdecins Sans Frontiéres Access Campaign, discusses the UN Secretary General’s High-Level Panel report on Access to Medicines and looks at the … Continue reading →

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Pay big pharma to solve antibiotics crisis, says UK government review

Posted on November 17, 2015 by donttradeourlivesaway

The Guardian; Pharmaceutical companies should be given cash incentives of up to $3bn to find and develop new antibiotics desperately needed to keep infections at bay, according to a UK government review. Jim O’Neill, the economist and former chair of … Continue reading →

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Talking drug prices #6: Openness vs. secrecy in drug development

Posted on October 23, 2015 by donttradeourlivesaway

Plos Blogs. October 22, 2015. By Mat Todd Contributors in this series on drug prices and access to medicines have mentioned important issues related to policy, finance and intellectual property. I’d like to make a few comments from the point of view … Continue reading →

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