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Working Agenda: April 2006
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Sunday, April 30, 2006. At April 28 WHO EB meeting, Brazil proposes work on R&D Treaty. Here is a link to the text of the WHO EB's draft resolution on the resport of the WHO Commission on Intellectual Property, Innovation and Public Health (CIPIH). Http:/ www.cptech.org/ip/health/who/WHOcipih280406.html. If you don't have time to read the whole 228 page CIPIH report, take a look at the report's greatest hits. 6) to initiate consultations on the possibility of elaborating a Framework Convention on Researc...
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Working Agenda: March 2006
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Tuesday, March 07, 2006. Bangladesh generic drug industry confronts Roche, Bird Flu. Today I’m in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and have just heard a report about the Bangladesh domestic pharmaceutical sector. For 2005, the domestic firms claim that a startlingly 97 percent of pharmaceutical consumption was manufactured domestically, and that the multinational company share of the Bangladesh market (imported or manufactured domestically) was only 7 percent. Moreover, the conditions imposed by Hetro clearly serve to...
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Working Agenda: November 2005
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Tuesday, November 29, 2005. Getting out of Iraq. Today's debate about leaving Iraq is something we needed before we invaded. The daily news about Iraq is a constant reminder that I live in a country that has been reeling toward intolerance, incompetence, aggression and all of the distasteful things that seem to accompany an occupation. These problems are particularly transparent, from the petty to the horrific. And in today’s New York Times. In the same edition of the NYT. Congressman Murtha's call for a...
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Working Agenda: December 2005
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Saturday, December 17, 2005. NGOs call for WTO Moratorium on Regional and Bilateral Trade Agreements on Intellectual Property and Medicine. This is a joint NGO statement distributed at the Hong Kong WTO Ministerial on December 17, 2005. December 17, 2005. Joint NGO Statement on Need for WTO Moratorium on Regional and Bilateral Trade Agreements and Policies Undermining Access to Health. Restrictions to the grounds for compulsory licensing,. Restrictions on parallel trade,. Unless the WTO can place meaning...
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Partners Against High Prices. UACT works with allied groups to seek innovative solutions to high drug prices and to advocate for affordable treatments for cancer patients internationally.