Year: 2017

NGOs and patient groups call upon Chilean President, Minister of Health to issue a compulsory license for cancer and Hepatitis drugs

Posted on by Kim Treanor

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Kim Treanor kim.treanor@keionline.org; 202-332-2670 Patient groups, civil society and concerned individuals from Chile and around the world call upon President Michelle Bachelet Jeria and Dr. Carmen Castillo Taucher, Minister of Health, to issue a compulsory license…

Senate tax bill will not make orphan drug tax credits transparent as to company, drug and disease

Posted on by James Love

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In a reversal from the version that passed out of the Senate Finance Committee, the version of the tax bill that passed the Senate eliminated the requirement that the Orphan Drug tax credit be transparent as to taxpayer, drug and…

Civil Society joint position at 1st World Conference on Access to Medicine

Posted on by James Love

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Attached is the Civil Society input to the 1st World Conference on Access to Medical Products and International Laws for Trade and Health in the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development that took place in Delhi, India in…

NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins falsely asserts Bayh-Dole safeguards do not address excessive pricing abuses

Posted on by KEI Staff

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In a hearing before the House Energy & Commerce Subcommittee on Health, Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health, explained the agency’s position on the Bayh-Dole rights and high drug prices. In the hearing, focused on the…

2017: NIH non-response response to KEI and MSF comments on the proposed exclusive license of Zika vaccine patents to PaxVax

Posted on by KEI Staff

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(More on government funded inventions here. Other KEI comments on NIH licenses are found here.) On November 30, 2017, KEI has received a response from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases regarding our previous joint comments with MSFon the proposed exclusive…

Senate proposes to cut Orphan Drug Tax Credit to 27.5 percent, and make it public

Posted on by James Love

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The Managers Amendment for the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act” is available on the Senate Finance web page here: https://www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/11.20.17%20Tax%20Cuts%20and%20Jobs%20Act.pdf or here: 11.20.17 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act I was looking over the Orphan Drug Tax Credit (ODTC) language. The…

KEI comments in FDA-2017-N-3615

Posted on by James Love

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On November 17, 2017, KEI provided comments in KEI-FDA-2017-N-3615 These were the topics discussed: Transparency Clinical trial costs Data from the Orphan Drug program Costs of trials for government funded research Asset acquisition costs. Licensing Access to Knowhow, data and materials…

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Expert panel recommends that the WHO move forward on transparency and delinkage

Posted on by Thiru

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On Monday, 27 November 2017, the WHO published the recommendations of the overall programme review of the global strategy and plan of action on public health, innovation and intellectual property (EB142/14).  The full report of the overall programme review (OPR)…

Statement of Knowledge Ecology International – WHO EB Special session on the draft Thirteenth General Programme of Work

Posted on by Kim Treanor

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Meeting: EB Special session on the draft Thirteenth General Programme of Work Agenda Item: 3. Draft Thirteenth General Programme of Work Statement: KEI welcomes the opportunity to comment on the 13th General Programme of Work anchored upon WHO’s vision of…

KEI Presentation at World Conference on Access to Medicines, New Dehli

Posted on by James Love

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From November 21 to 23, the Government of India and the World Health Organization are hosting the “1st World Conference on Access to Medical Products and International Laws for Trade and Health, in the Context of the 2030 Agenda for…