Access to Medicines

Dec 9, 2009 Wikileaks documents related to the WHO EWG

On December 9, 2009, Wikileaks posted five sensitive documents related to the WHO Expert Working Group (EWG) on R&D Financing:

  • a non-public draft report of the WHO EWG
  • a non-public Comparative Analysis done by the EWG
  • the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA) Overview of the EWG Comparative Analysis
  • an IFPMA summary slide on the EWG Draft Report
  • Open Letter to the WHO EB from Cecilia López Montaño, EWG member

    The following is a letter sent by Cecilia López Montaño, a member of the WHO Expert Working Group on R&D Financing to the WHO Executive Board:

    Bogotá. Colombia. January 15th 2010

    Dear members of the Executive Board:

    I am Cecilia López Montaño, senator of the Colombian Congress and member of the Expert Working Group on Research and Development Financing of the World Health Organization, in representation of the point of view of developing countries, I assume.

    KEI Statement on UNITAID Decision to Approve Creation of a Patent Pool for AIDS medicines

    On Monday, December 14, the UNITAID board passed a resolution to establish a Patent Pool for AIDS medicines. The decision caped a dramatic debate on the proposal, which had been before UNITAID since 2006, and had been discussed in other fora since 2002. The following is a statement by KEI on the UNITAID decision, followed by background on the UNITAID patent pool proposal, including a copy of the UNITAID press release.

    Statement of James Love, Director of KEI, on the UNITAID Patent Pool:

    Speech of Mike Foster, UK Minister for International Development at launch of Industry Government Forum on Access to Medicines

    On 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).

    The Right to Development Criteria, applied to TDR and the Global Fund

    For several years, the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) has been working on mechanisms to implement a 1986 UN Resolution on the "Right to Development." To this end, the HRC has created a Working Group on the Right to Development, and a High Level Task Force On The Implementation Of The Right To Development.

    Letter to WHO on EML

    March 2, 2007
     
    Secretary of the Expert Committee on the
    Selection and Use of Essential Medicines (2007)
    Department of Medicines Policy and Standards (PSM)
    Health Technology & Pharmaceuticals
    World Health Organization
    CH-1211 Geneva 27
    Switzerland

    Via e-mail:  emisecretariat@who.int

    RE: Request for changes in the WHO Model EML

     

    KEI Comments to EWG 2nd Web-based Public Hearing: Defending the Status Quo, or Roadmap for Change?

    On Saturday, KEI filed comments with the WHO EWG's 2nd web based hearing. Our comments focused on the criteria for new proposals.

    WHO IGWG Negotiation

    WHO Expert Working Group on R&D Financing (EWG)

    WHO website on the EWG

    NEWS: The EWG secretariat has released a draft evaluation framework, evaluation criteria and the inventory of financing proposals. The EWG is accepting public comments through the Second Web-based Public Hearing. Deadline: September 5 2009. KEI has offered critical comments on the criteria.


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