UPDATE: On Wednesday, 15 August 2018, WHO Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus provided a response to the open letter on the Roadmap on Access to Medicines and Vaccines 2019-2023. The Director-General’s response can be found here: WHO DG letter to… Continue Reading
The following is a question for the record from Senator Sherrod Brown, and a response from Alex Azar, in connection with Azar’s confirmation hearing. Questions for the Record January 9, 2018 Hearing to Consider the Nomination of Alex Azar to… Continue Reading
On 26 September 2018, the United Nations’ General Assembly will convene the first high-level meeting on tuberculosis; the theme of the meeting is “United to end tuberculosis: an urgent global response to a global epidemic”. In preparation for the United… Continue Reading
The new House democrats medicare negotiations bill represents a turning point, with broad support for using robust compulsory licensing authority to protect access if negotiations on prices break down. The press conference announcing the bill featured several Democratic members of… Continue Reading
The following are comments by the KEI on the HHS Blueprint to Lower Drug Prices and Reduce Out-of-Pocket Costs, in response to notice in the Federal Register, 83 FR 22692. Overall, the Blueprint is very weak, and won’t do much… Continue Reading
KEI/HAI Interventions HAI/KEI intervention at the WHA69 on the Framework of Engagement with Non-State Actors HAI/KEI intervention at the WHA69 on the negotiations on an R&D agreement Interventions by Member States WHA 69: Colombian Minister of Health Calls on WHO… Continue Reading
Interventions made by KEI WHA70: Statement of Knowledge Ecology International – CEWG follow up WHA70: Statement of Knowledge Ecology International on antimicrobial resistance WHA70: Statement of Knowledge Ecology International on review of the GSPOA-PHI WHA70: Statement of Knowledge Ecology International:… Continue Reading
Interventions made by KEI WHA71: KEI statement on the Draft thirteenth general programme of work, 2019–2023 WHA71: KEI intervention on the Preparation for the third High-level Meeting of the General Assembly on the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases, to… Continue Reading
At around 16h35 on Thursday, 12 July 2018, the WIPO Secretariat distributed the final text of the future work program of the Standing Committee on the Law of Patents (SCP). The final text can be found here: http://www.wipo.int/edocs/mdocs/scp/en/scp_28/scp_28_11.pdf The new… Continue Reading