Access To Medicines For All By 2030: New WHO Strategic Framework Sets Vision

13/07/2017 Catherine Saez

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Access to affordable and quality medicines for all is one of the major commitments of the World Health Organization, and its new medicines and health products strategic framework for the next 15 years calls for new research and development (R&D) models, including delinkage of the R&D costs from the price of products, and fair pricing. Continue reading ->

Health: Report Calls For Increased Efforts On TB; WHO Warns About Antibiotic-Resistant Sexually Transmitted Disease

07/07/2017 Catherine Saez

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Tuberculosis is still a deadly killer, and a new report by two humanitarian organisations raises alarm on poor progress on the disease diagnosis and treatment. The report calls for governments to increase efforts to fight the disease, and for the G20 countries to mobilise funds to help, in particular to boost research and development for new treatments. Separately, the World Health Organization issued a call for new treatments to fight antibiotic resistant gonorrhoea. Continue reading ->

G20: Security, Trade, Climate, Trump Diplomacy Overshadow Health, IT, Innovation

07/07/2017 Monika Ermert

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On the eve of the G20 meeting in Hamburg, Germany, German politicians described positions on free trade and climate as the most difficult issues. Expectations from civil society groups in the G20 results are modest at best and the 6 July protest march “Welcome to Hell” was cancelled after clashes between the police and parts of the protestors. Continue reading ->

New WHO Director Tedros’s Opening Vision: People First

04/07/2017 William New

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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus began his first week as director-general of the UN World Health Organization by addressing the WHO staff with his vision for the organisation and the world. Top of the list? Humanity. Continue reading ->

Enter The African Medicines Agency, Continent’s First Super-Regulator?

03/07/2017 Tatum Anderson

An African medicines agency, the continent’s first super-regulator, could be approved as soon as next year. Continue reading ->

Medicines Patent Pool Nets WHO’s Kieny As New Chair

03/07/2017 Catherine Saez

Marie-Paule Kieny, fresh out of the World Health Organization, where she held the position of assistant director general for Health Systems and Innovation, will be the new chair of the Medicines Patent Pool, as of 1 September.Continue reading ->

World’s Most Effective HIV Drug Rolled Out In Africa In Generic Version

29/06/2017 Fredrick Nzwili

NAIROBI, Kenya – A generic version of dolutegravir (DTG), the drug of choice for the last two years for people living with HIV in high-income countries, is now available in Africa.

On 28 June, the government of Kenya and drug pricing and innovation mechanism Unitaid unveiled the new first-line drug in an effort to accelerate access to better antiretroviral (ARV) drugs for her people living with HIV. It becomes the first country in Africa to introduce the generic version of drug. Continue reading ->

WHO Starts Work On Essential List Of Diagnostics To Facilitate Access, Lower Prices

16/06/2017 Catherine Saez

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The World Health Organization announced yesterday that it has begun work on a list of essential diagnostics, as an echo of its Model List of Essential Medicines. Continue reading ->

WHO Director-Elect Tedros In US, Meeting With Funders, International Organisations, Governments

12/06/2017 William New

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World Health Organization Director-Elect Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in touring the United States this week, visiting key funders of the WHO, partner international organisations, US government agencies and nongovernmental organisations, and a Canadian ministry. Continue reading ->

WHO Members Take Steps Against Global Rise In Sales Of Human Body Parts

09/06/2017 Elise De Geyter

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The World Health Assembly last week adopted ten guiding ethical principles for the donation and management of medical products of human origin – that is, the rising market for body parts. Continue reading ->