Access to medicines Archives - Page 2 of 7 - Oxfam Policy & Practice

Briefing paper

Trading Away Access to Medicines – Revisited: How the European trade agenda continues to undermine access to medicines

29/09/2014

1 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Insufficient innovation and a lack of access to affordable medicines are major barriers to achieving the right to health in low- and middle-income countries. This paper argues that European Union trade policies should not be used to bolster pharmaceutical companies’ profits by extending their monopolies on medicine prices to supposedly reward research. Instead, the incoming […]

View resource

Evaluation report

Effectiveness Review: Health for All: Towards Free Universal Health Care in Ghana

06/12/2013

3 documents

45 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The Universal Health Care Campaign is a bold, collaborative advocacy effort by civil society organisations and networks, working towards a collective vision of free, quality and accessible universal health care for all Ghanaians. The Campaign aimed to raise awareness of the weaknesses of the existing health insurance scheme as a modality for financing free universal […]

View resource

Research report

Missed Opportunities: The case for strengthening national and local partnership-based humanitarian responses

03/11/2013

2 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

Overview

This study is the first output of a research project commissioned by five UK-based international humanitarian non-governmental organisations (INGOs) – ActionAid, CAFOD, Christian Aid, Oxfam GB and Tearfund. The main purpose of the project was to look at the current and future potential of partnerships with national non-governmental organisations (NNGOs) in humanitarian response, based on […]

View resource

Case study

A Healthy influence: How Oxfam convened partners to influence Zambia’s elections with the campaign message ‘vote health for all’ and saw a 45 per cent boost to the national health care budget

25/09/2013

1 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This case study describes how Oxfam seized upon a crucial political opportunity, and worked with national partners in the lead-up to Zambia’s 2011 election to campaign for better access to health care. The ‘vote health for all’ campaign supported communities to raise their concerns about health care at a national level and pressed for increased […]

View resource

Case study

HIV Prevention and Treatment for adolescents: A social study of Africaid Whizzkids United’s comprehensive model

10/09/2013

1 documents

60 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This report describes the social aspects of the work of Africaid Whizzkids United (WKU), an NGO providing comprehensive HIV prevention, treatment, care and support services to adolescents in the township of Edendale in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The report’s emphasis on this group of Africaid’s clients was motivated by the relatively limited research available on this emerging population. […]

View resource

Annual report

My Rights, My Voice Annual Progress Report 2012

12/08/2013

1 documents

60 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

My Rights, My Voice (MRMV) engages marginalized children and youth in their rights to health and education services in eight countries. The 2012 Annual Progress Report provides an overview of the first year of this innovative three year programme and of the MRMV Global Programme Framework In its first year MRMV established strong foundations for […]

View resource

Media briefing

Unregulated and Unaccountable: How the private health care sector in India is putting women’s lives at risk

06/02/2013

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Decades of appallingly low investment in the public health sector has left India with a crumbling health system, unable to meet the needs of its citizens. Despite efforts in recent years to strengthen the public health system, India has one of the lowest levels of government investment in health in the world, just one percent […]

View resource

Briefing paper

Salt, Sugar, and Malaria Pills: How the Affordable Medicine Facility-malaria endangers public health

24/10/2012

4 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The Affordable Medicine Facility-malaria has shown no evidence that it has saved the lives of the most vulnerable or delayed drug resistance. Rather, this global subsidy has incentivised medicine sales without diagnosis and shown no evidence that it has served poor people. It poses a risk to public health and could skew investment away from […]

View resource

Case study

Missing Medicines in Malawi: Campaigning against stock-outs of essential drugs

30/05/2012

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Malawi is one of the poorest countries in the world. The government has introduced some measures to improve the health of its people, but a number of major problems remain. One of these is the lack of essential medicines in government health clinics – known as ‘stock-outs’. These medicines should be free to poor people, […]

View resource

Briefing paper

Eye on the Ball: Medicine regulation – not IP enforcement – can best deliver quality medicine

02/02/2011

6 documents

51 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Poor-quality medicines pose a serious threat to patients and public health in developing countries. The World Health Organisation estimates nearly one-third of all countries lack adequate drug-regulatory capacity to monitor medicines safety. Under the guise of addressing this problem, some rich countries are pushing for new intellectual-property rules and a reliance on police action to […]

View resource

Access to medicines

Filter Resources by