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This included reporting possible negative effects to the responsible authorities and main health service providers and pressing for improvements. This […] View resource 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 Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Access to medicines Trade policy Overview 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. […] View resource Research report Civil Society and UNITAID: An introduction 13/10/2009 4 documents 8 pages long Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Access to medicines Civil society HIV and AIDS Overview 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 […] View resource Evaluation report Evaluation of Community-Based Primary Health Care Project in Hadhramout, Yemen 01/12/2008 2 documents 64 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Access to medicines Health promotion M&E Monitoring and evaluation Overview 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 […] View resource 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 Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords 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 […] View resource 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 Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Access to medicines Finance Health systems HIV and AIDS Overview 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. […] View resource Campaign report Health and Education For All: What you need to know 25/04/2008 1 documents 37 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Access to medicines Health systems Water and sanitation 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 […] View resource 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 Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Access to medicines Corporate responsibility Overview 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. […] View resource 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 Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Access to medicines Development in Practice Journal Development methods DiP HIV and AIDS Trade policy 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 […] View resource 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 Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Access to medicines TRIPS and patents World Trade Organisation WTO 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 […] View resource Posts navigation Prev page Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 … Page 7 Next page Spotted an error? Let us know