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Evaluation report

Effectiveness Review: Civil Society Development and Access to Health Care, Georgia

10/10/2010

4 documents

31 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

The ‘Effective Civil Society Development and Improved Access to Quality Healthcare for Poor People in Georgia’ project aimed to strengthen and broaden the existing NGO coalition ‘Future without Poverty’ and monitor ongoing health care reforms. This included reporting possible negative effects to the responsible authorities and main health service providers and pressing for improvements. This […]

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Briefing paper

Trading Away Access to Medicines: How the European Union’s trade agenda has taken a wrong turn

20/10/2009

7 documents

32 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish, Thai

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Access to medicines poses a critical challenge in developing countries, largely because prices are high, and new or adapted medicines and vaccine to address diseases of the developing world are lacking. ore than 5 million people in low and middle income countries still lack access to the anti-retroviral medicines needed to treat HIV and AIDS. […]

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Research report

Civil Society and UNITAID: An introduction

13/10/2009

4 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

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Access to medicines is a major challenge for people in developing countries. With the right medicines, diseases such as HIV and AIDS, tuberculosis (TB), and malaria are treatable. Yet for millions of poor people, affordable medicines remain out of reach. UNITAID was established in 2006 as a new public health financing mechanism and a South-North […]

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Evaluation report

Evaluation of Community-Based Primary Health Care Project in Hadhramout, Yemen

01/12/2008

2 documents

64 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam’s four-year Community-Based Primary Health Care Project in Hadhramout, Yemen (funded by the EC) aimed to improve the health status of poor women, men and children in 24 remote villages in Sah and Sayoun districts. It aimed to achieve this through a variety of approaches including: promoting health awareness, improving the quality of promotion, and […]

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Briefing paper

Ending the R&D Crisis in Public Health: Promoting pro-poor medical innovation

13/11/2008

6 documents

50 pages long

Languages: English, French, German, Spanish

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Access to medicines

Overview

Diseases that disproportionately affect the developing world cause immense suffering and ill health. Medical innovation has the potential to deliver new medicines, vaccines, and diagnostics to overcome these diseases, yet few treatments have emerged. Current efforts to resolve the crisis are inadequate: financing for research and development (R&D) is insufficient, uncoordinated, and mostly tied to […]

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Briefing paper

Health Insurance in Low Income Countries: Where is the evidence that it works?

07/05/2008

4 documents

29 pages long

Languages: English, French, German, Spanish

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Some donors and governments propose that health insurance mechanisms can close health financing gaps and benefit poor people. Although beneficial for the people able to join, this method of financing health care has so far been unable to sufficiently fill financing gaps in health systems and improve access to quality health care for the poor. […]

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Campaign report

Health and Education For All: What you need to know

25/04/2008

1 documents

37 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Classrooms with teachers, clinics with nurses, affordable medicines, running taps, and working toilets – for millions of people in poor countries these things are a distant dream, and there is no reason why this should be the case. Yet these vital public services – health, education, water and sanitation – can transform the lives of […]

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Briefing paper

Investing For Life: Meeting poor people’s needs for access to medicines through responsible business practices

27/11/2007

3 documents

57 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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There are major shortcomings in the pharmaceutical industry’s current initiatives to ensure that poor people have access to medicines. To shore up its own flagging economic performance, the industry is increasingly looking to the potentially huge markets within emerging economies. Yet, poor people who live in these countries still desperately lack affordable and appropriate medicines. […]

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Journal article

Corporate wealth or public health? WTO/TRIPS flexibilities and access to HIV/AIDS antiretroviral drugs by developing countries

01/04/2007

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

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Overview

Between 1994 and 2003, the TRIPS (Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) Agreement of the WTO was refined to allow for flexibilities in the use of compulsory licences to import and export ‘generic’ varieties of pharmaceutical products, including ARV drugs for the treatment of HIV/AIDS. After summarising this process, and assessing its implications in practice […]

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Briefing paper

All Costs, No Benefits: How TRIPS plus intellectual property rules in the US-Jordan FTA affect access to medicines

21/03/2007

4 documents

37 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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Overview

The USA continues to impose TRIPS-plus rules on developing countries, thus preventing poor people from accessing inexpensive, generic medicines. Jordan was required under the terms of its WTO accession package and its free trade agreement (FTA) with the USA to introduce TRIPS-plus rules. Medicine prices have increased drastically, and TRIPS-plus rules were partly responsible for […]

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