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WHA 68: Experts discuss delinking drug R&D costs from pricing to make them affordable (post)
The problem of drug prices eating up national health budgets has been coming up at the annual World Health Assembly. Last week, a panel of experts discussed the merits of lowering those prices by delinking research and development costs from pricing.
South Africa: Poor management blamed for bulk of drug stock outs (post)
Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi has blamed manufacturers for shortages of medicines including HIV and tuberculosis drugs, but a civil society coalition has alleged 80 percent of stock outs are due to poor management.
Campaign for affordable medicine gains ground in South Africa (post)
- Patient and leading health organisations in South Africa have now joined a Fix the Patent Laws campaign launched in 2011 by Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and Doctors Without Borders (MSF) to push for reform of the country’s current patent laws.
What needs to be added to South Africa’s anti-TB toolbox (post)
The approval in South Africa last year of the first new TB drug in 50 years was celebrated as a milestone in the fight against the global epidemic.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership — is it bad for your health? (post)
International trade deals once focused primarily on tariffs. As a result, they had little direct effect on health, and health experts could reasonably leave their details to trade professionals. Not so today.
South Africa: More than R130 million slated for new TB drugs (post)
In just four years, South Africa has seen a 40-fold increase in health facilities treating drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) as government pledges more than R130 million for new medicines.
India: Private pharmacies to distribute TB drugs to increase coverage (post)
Even though the State and Central Government provide drugs and treatment free of cost to all tuberculosis patients irrespective of their financial status, only around half of all TB patients avail themselves of these facilities.
Asia-Pacific AIDS groups support UN expert call for human rights impact assessment of Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (post)
AIDS groups alarmed as US-led Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement continues to threaten access to affordable generic medicines; call for immediate moratorium on TPPA negotiations
DR-TB Scale-up Treatment Action Team (STAT) (post)
25 June 2015 - In March 2015, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), ACTION Global Health Advocacy Partnership, SWIFT Response Project, Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), Treatment Action Group (TAG) and 84 other organisations issued a call to action urging global health actors and the TB community to form a consortium with the objective of meeting time-bound, concrete targets for scaling up use of new drugs in DR-TB treatment.
Leaked: What’s in Obama’s trade deal (post)
A recent draft of the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade deal would give U.S. pharmaceutical firms unprecedented protections against competition from cheaper generic drugs, possibly transcending the patent protections in U.S. law.
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