Today, Tibotec, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, announced it has signed voluntary licensing agreements with several Indian and South African generic companies to allow generic competition on a new HIV-AIDS treatment, the investigational non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor rilpivirine hydrochloride (TMC278) (rilpivirine hydrochloride), to certain developing countries. Continue Reading
The following is an article by Agathe Duparc which appeared on page four of the Sunday/Monday edition (23 January-24 January 2011) of Le Monde with a reference on the cover page. Below the article are two paragraphs providing readers with more background information on the World Health Assembly and the Executive Board. The third paragraph is the main quote highlighted in the print version. What is missing in this copy below is a cartoon accompanying the piece which shows a bespectacled man with a body of an octopus holding two syringes in a field of dollar signs. Continue Reading
WHO has kindly made available its conflict of interest guidelines. Apparently they are not available from the public web page. Attached are two documents:
A few of the many interesting provisions follow:
I. MEANING OF “CONFLICT OF INTEREST”Embedded content in television shows and films
Google hits for “health messages embedded in television” 275,000
http://www.gwumc.edu/sphhs/departments/pch/phcm/casesjournal/volume1/peer-reviewed/cases_1_08.cfm
Motivating Television Viewers to Become Organ Donors
Authors: Lauren Movius, Michael Cody, Grace Huang, Mandy Berkowitz, Susan Morgan
Corresponding Author: Lauren Movius, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Southern California, lmovius@usc.edu.http://movingimages.wordpress.com/2007/05/29/saved-by-the-soaps-asia-media-summit-picks-up-momentum/
Continue ReadingDifferences in deaths for 6 cancer types in 14 WHO regions, with reference to income of region
A pdf version of this document is available here.
KEI Research Note 2010:5
December 23, 2010Differences in ratio of deaths to new cases for 6 cancer types in 14 WHO regions, with reference to income of region
Introduction
US Industry IP memo for the TPP negotiations leaked
Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) has received a copy of U.S. industry demands on the Intellectual Property chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) negotiations. A draft letter from US industry to USTR has been leaked and is available here.
Microsoft, Gates Foundation Timeline
November 29, 2010 Revised January 4, 2011 Introduction This timeline contains a number of selected data points concerning Microsoft and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF). The motivations for this timeline, which features entries for both Microsoft and the… Continue Reading
CDIP6: Bolivia’s intervention on WIPO’s proposed project on ‘Open Collaborative Projects and IP-Based Models’
25 November 2010
The fourth day of WIPO’s Committee on Development and Intellectual Property(CDIP6) has witnessed a rich discussion on how to implement Recommendation 36 of the WIPO Development Agenda which states:
Recommendation 36 (Cluster D): To exchange experiences on open collaborative projects such as the Human Genome Project as well as on intellectual property modelsRevealing study by L Yager (GAO): ‘Observations on efforts to quantify the economic effects of counterfeit and pirated goods’
The 6th session of the WIPO Advisory Committee on Enforcement is taking place in Geneva from 1-2 December 2010. KEI’s observations on the 5th session, entitled, Positive outcome reached at WIPO Advisory Committee on Enforcement while ACTA looms in the East can be found here:/node/681.
Notes from EU Parliament meeting on innovation+access for medical technologies
Today I am attending a meeting at the European Parliament on new models of innovation for medical technologies. The event was organized by three MEPs, Thijs Berman, Eva Joly and Carl Schlyter, in collaboration with the European Parliament Working Group on Innovation, Access to Medicines and Poverity-Related Diseaes, and several consumer rights, public health and development NGOs (TACD, Health Action International, KEI, Oxfam and IQsensato).