Items tagged with Access
Activists urge Otsuka to provide access to TB drug (post with simple image)
TB activists interrupted Otsuka’s symposium at the 45th Conference on Lung Health, calling for widespread registration of and immediate broad compassionate use access to delamanid, Otsuka’s new drug to treat multidrug-resistant TB.
India: The hidden costs of free care (post with simple image)
An oft-repeated fact about healthcare services provided by the public sector in India is that they are “free”. This leads to the belief that free diagnosis and treatment eventually mean little or no spending on health by the poor and, consequently, this drastically reduces health-related expenses for them.
Global differences on patents lead WIPO patent law committee to stumble on future work (post with simple image)
Once again, differences over the role of a World Intellectual Property Organization committee last week came in the way of consensus and prevented delegates from agreeing on future work. At the heart of the discontent was the perceived imbalance of the proposed programme of work, which some said disregarded the interests of developing countries. A speaker for the African region gave a striking speech on the Ebola crisis as an example of the failure of the patent system.
South Africa: DR-TB patients, activists demand registering generic linezolid (post with simple image)
A letter, signed by over 100 clinicians, organisations and patients with DR-TB, demands the immediate registration of a generic version of linezolid in South Africa, which has been under a significantly delayed fast-track review process since May 2013.
2014 Access to Medicine Index – More being done, but progress is uneven (post with simple image)
17 November 2014 | The world’s leading pharmaceutical companies are doing more to improve access to medicine in developing countries, with a raft of new initiatives, scale-ups and innovations over the last two years. However, the industry struggles to perform well in some practices that matter, according to the 2014 Access to Medicine Index, published Monday.
“You see yourself vanishing and you think: I’m going to die” (post with simple image)
Andaleeb Rinquest remembers the moment she accepted, with certainty, the imminence of her own death.
If US had a patent law like ours, they would discover many more drugs: Anand Grover (post with simple image)
India's intellectual property (IP) law has been hailed as one of the most progressive for safeguarding public interest, and several nations like Argentina, the Philippines and Brazil are looking to learn from it. Senior advocate and former UN special rapporteur on the right to health Anand Grover talks to Rema Nagarajan about the pressure the country is facing, primarily from the US, to change its IP laws.
Open letter to South African Medical Schemes re: covering linezolid (post with simple image)
Several organizations and individuals working on TB are concerned that some medical schemes may be refusing to cover the cost of linezolid for drug-resistant tuberculosis.
MSF response to Janssen’s bedaquiline donation announcement (post with simple image)
Médecins Sans Frontières responds to the news of the donation:
AHF: Recent Ukranian tuberculosis outbreak due to lack of medicine (post with simple image)
Shortages place some 50,000 patients at risk.
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