Italy submits drug pricing transparency resolution to WHO
21st May, 2019 Improving the transparency of markets for medicines, vaccines, and other healthrelated products and other technologies to be discussed at the 72nd session of the WHA to be held on...
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Several Ministers Of Health Speak Up For Drug Market Transparency, Lower...
Source: Health Policy Watch 21st May, 2019 The room holding the high-level side event on transparency of pharmaceutical product markets was overflowing today – with dozens of people standing to hear...
View ArticleWHO drug pricing talks may fail to end secrecy, activists fear
Source: Reuters 24th May, 2019 GENEVA (Reuters) – Governments are working on a drug pricing transparency deal at the World Health Organization’s (WHO) annual assembly, but activists said on Thursday...
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Future Of Drug Pricing Resolution Hangs In Balance At World Health Assembly
Source: Health Policy 24th May, 2019 The fate of a potentially game-changing World Health Assembly resolution that would support greater national and global transparency in drug pricing remained in...
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UK government refuses to sign up to WHO pricing transparency resolution
Source: Pharmafile 4th June, 2019 The UK government has refused to sign up to a global resolution on transparency in drug pricing which urges governments to share information on the prices they pay...
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WHO’s EB Considers New Ways To Work With NGOs – Some Countries Criticise...
Source: Health Policy Watch 4th June, 2019 In the wake of a World Health Assembly that became a focus of intense activist and social media attention over a WHO resolution on medicines price...
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WHO Launches Campaign to Combat Antimicrobial Resistance; Most Countries Fail...
Source: Health Policy Watch 19th June, 2019 The World Health Organization (WHO) today launched a global AWaRe campaign, which aims to support national health systems to make more judicious use of...
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New Cancer Drugs Top Entries On WHO Essential Medicines List
Source: Health Policy Watch 23rd July, 2019 WHO has added ten new cancer drugs, including some pricey ones, to its 2019 Essential Medicines List, which provides global guidance to countries and...
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WHO Calls On Countries To Scale Up Hepatitis Services, Invest In Elimination
Source: Health Policy Watch 31st July 2019 80 percent of people with viral hepatitis lack access to services for prevention, testing & treatment. To address this gap, the World Health...
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Pandemic puts a global spotlight on IP, as countries step-up efforts to be heard
Leaders of the European Union (EU) and African Union (AU) at the summit in Brussels, Belgium on February 18, 2022, where African leaders reiterated their call for a waiver of Intellectual Property...
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