Global Health Watch 3 now available online!

Posted Thu, 02/09/2012 - 14:22

 Global Health Watch 3 is now available online. Download the full report here!

To browse through the contents and to download individual chapters, click here.

Civil society challenges WIPO over so-called Africa IP Summit

Posted Wed, 02/08/2012 - 21:34

The Africa IP Summit is a highly controversial event, scheduled to be held in Cape Town in April, co-organised by World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), the US Department of Commerce and a number of large US corporations (Microsoft, Eli Lilly. Pfizer, etc).

There are clear intentions to use this platform to promote for TRIPS-plus measures in intellectual property protection and enforcement in the African region. Needless to say that WIPO is also quite active on 'anti-counterfeit' initiatives; deliberately conflating questions of IPRs with questions about quality, safety and efficacy. The objectives of this 'summit' run counter to the spirit and the letter of the Development Agenda adopted by WIPO in 2007.

PHM has joined 99 NGOs and academics urging WIPO to reconsider.

Please read, circulate, publicise and write directly to WIPO. 

For First Time, Unicef Reveals Differences in Prices it Pays Drug Companies for Vaccines

Posted Wed, 06/01/2011 - 08:42

By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
Published: May 27, 2011

The United Nations Children’s Fund on Friday publicly listed for the first time the price it pays for vaccines.

The decision — which immediately revealed wide disparities in what vaccine makers charge — could lead to drastic cuts in prices for vaccines that save millions of children’s lives.

Unicef paid $747 million for vaccines last year, buying over two billion doses for 58 percent of the world’s children.

PHM Statement at the 64th WHA on Future Financing of WHO

Posted Mon, 05/16/2011 - 14:57
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