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WHO releases names of experts and advisor to the Emergency Committee concerning Influenza Pandemic (H1N1) 2009
Submitted by thiru on 11. August 2010 - 2:09WHO has released the 'List of Members of, and Advisor to, the International Health Regulations (2005) Emergency Committee concerning Influenza Pandemic (H1N1) 2009' at the following site: http://www.who.int/ihr/emerg_comm_members_2009/en/. Of the 15 members and one advisor, 6 had declaration of interests. On this matter, WHO had the following statement:
Speech of Mike Foster, UK Minister for International Development at launch of Industry Government Forum on Access to Medicines
Submitted by thiru on 21. October 2009 - 4:32On October 12, 2009, the "Industry Government Forum on Access to Medicines" (IGFAM) was launched. The UK Minister for International Development, MP Mike Foster made a a speech to launch this initiative which is reproduced below.
Presentations were also made by Pfizer (Ponni Subbiah), GSK (Abbas Hussain), Rajiv Venkayya (Gates Foundation), Prashant Yadav (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Suerie Moon (Research Fellow and Doctoral Candidate, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University).
KEI reaction to GSK announcement on patent pool for neglected diseases
Submitted by James Love on 19. February 2009 - 9:10As an early proponent of the use of patent pools to expand access to medical technologies, our initial reaction to the GSK announcement is that GSK is responding to several new developments.
