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New Coalition Takes on Neglected Tropical Diseases

By Jennifer Ringler | Published: November 1, 2011
A new coalition for sharing pharma IP takes aim at the increasing burden of neglected tropical diseases in the developing world. According to the World Health Organization, neglected tropical diseases affect more than one billion of the world’s poorest 2.7 billion people. Many of these diseases, which can cause blindness and other debilitating symptoms, have reached [...]
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Industry, Patents and Public Health: Wimps on the Barbie?

By William Looney | Published: October 20, 2010
The welcome news of a compact between industry and the WHO to fight neglected diseases in the developing world only highlights a much more spotty industry record of engagement on sensitive policy issues like intellectual property rights. One of the industry’s more ambitious policy-driven efforts occurred some five years ago with a strong, well-funded and broadly [...]
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WHO Brings Big Pharma Together to Fight Debilitating Diseases

By Jennifer Ringler | Published: October 18, 2010
A new report from WHO on overcoming the impact of neglected tropical diseases has spawned a $150 million funding and donation initiative from Big Pharma. Last week, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced an initiative involving six Pharmaceutical companies—Novartis, GlaxoSmithKline, Sanofi-Aventis, Johnson & Johnson, Bayer, and Eisai of Japan—that will bring much-needed funding and research to [...]
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WHO Threatens Industry Shut-out on Counterfeit Regulation

By William Looney | Published: May 26, 2010
Big Pharma believes that a global generics franchise might give it a softer landing off the patent cliff, but governments that sponsor and regulate the industry are still acting a bit slow on the uptake. The reason? Anti-IP activists are again poisoning the well on global access to medicines, engaging the bigger emerging market governments [...]
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WHO Pushes H1N1 Flu to Pandemic State

By George Koroneos | Published: June 11, 2009
Image by Quiplash! via Flickr The Word Health Organization just bumped the H1N1 influenza to pandemic alert phase 6 (the highest alert level), making it the first worldwide pandemic in 41 years. According to WHO Director-General Margaret Chan, 30,000 cases of the swine flu have been reported in 74 countries, but there is a very good possibility [...]
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