Tag Archives: World Health Organization

Fighting Tropical Disease: It's Now a Common Cause

By Guest Blogger | Published: February 8, 2012
David Torstensson, Senior Consultant, Pugatch Consilium, considers what the London Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases reveals about research and development efforts into neglected and tropical diseases. Last week, the Gates Foundation, several government aid agencies, the World Health Organization [WHO], and a host of  biopharm companies including GSK, Merck, Eisai, J&J, Sanofi, Novartis, Bayer and Abbott, [...]
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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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