KEI’s comments to USTR on its 2024 Special 301 list
Access to Medicine
KEI Comments on the Implications of Access and Benefit Sharing Commitments/Regimes and Other Proposed Commitments in the WHO Pandemic Agreement
On January 29, 2024, KEI submitted comments in response the Federal Register notice posted by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) concerning, “the Implications of Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) Commitments/Regimes and Other Proposed Commitments Being Considered Under… Continue Reading
EB 154: KEI statement on Economics and health for all
On Saturday, 27 January 2024, Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) delivered the following statement on the recommendations of the independent WHO Council on the Economics of Health for All. EB 154: KEI statement on Economics and health for all KEI read… Continue Reading
EB 154: KEI statement on WHO’s work in health emergencies
On 25 January 2024, Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) delivered this statement on WHO’s work in health emergencies. There is an ongoing need to make investments in countermeasures to tackle possible pandemics. The current systems of incentives for drug development are… Continue Reading
EB 154: KEI statement on the Follow-up to the political declaration of the third high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases
On Wednesday, 24 January 2024, Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) delivered the following statement on the Follow-up to the political declaration of the third high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases. The innovation for… Continue Reading
EB 154: KEI statement on Universal Health Coverage
On Wednesday, 24 January 2024, Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) delivered the following statement on Universal Health Coverage. In order to achieve universal health coverage with access to medicine for all, governments need to de-link the incentives to invest in R&D… Continue Reading
EB 154: KEI statement on the Draft fourteenth general programme of work
On Monday, 22 January 2024, Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) delivered the following statement at the 154th session of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Executive Board on the Draft fourteenth general programme of work. EB 154: KEI statement on the Draft… Continue Reading
WHO mulls proposal to reform procedures concerning the submission, review, and adoption of WHO resolutions
On 4 December 2023, the World Health Organization (WHO) published a document entitled Matters emanating from the Agile Member States Task Group on Strengthening WHO’s Budgetary, Programmatic and Financing Governance: Proposals for improving the effectiveness of the WHO governing bodies.… Continue Reading
Prostate cancer patients ask Secretary Beccera to act on their appeal of rejection of the Xtandi march in and government use petititon
On December 19, 2023, three prostate cancer patients, Robert Sachs, Clare Love and Eric Sawyer, sent a letter to Secretary Becerra asking that he act on their appeal of the rejection of their petition, asking the federal government to use… Continue Reading
WTO: Prospects to adopt proposed decision text on the extension of the 17 June 2022 Ministerial Decision to Covid-19 therapeutics and diagnostics appear grim
On 4 December 2023, the World Trade Organization (WTO) published a document (WT/GC/W/913, IP/C/W/694/Rev.1) entitled, “Decision text on extension of the 17 June 2022 Ministerial Decision to COVID-19 therapeutics and diagnostics”. This document is a communication from Bangaldesh, The Plurinational… Continue Reading