Trump Administration poses an unprecedented threat to life-saving health programmes
On his first day in office, US President Trump issued several executive orders, one of which concerns US foreign aid. This order included a...
Cystic Fibrosis Buyers Club Shows the UK Government The Way
The move by a group of parents of children with cystic fibrosis (CF) to set up a buyers club to gain access to treatments...
Remdesivir developed country price announced
On 29, June 2020 Gilead announced its global price for developed countries for remdesivir, a medicine that has shown some effect in the treatment...
Pharmaceutical Accountability Foundation is taking AbbVie to court over excessive pricing of Humira –...
On 21 February, the Dutch Pharmaceutical Accountability Foundation (PAF) took the bold step to take AbbVie to court, claiming the company’s pricing policy had...
The EU proposed Covid waivers of certain TRIPS rules are mostly meaningless
Since October 2020, discussions have been ongoing at the World Trade Organization’s Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Council about a waiver of...
The world needs a signal that multilateralism works: ML&P opening statement to the INB13,...
Thank you for the opportunity to make a brief statement.
The negotiations for the Pandemic Agreement enter the final phase. We hope and wish for...
Will Europe block the Pandemic Agreement because of one word?
This commentary originally appeared in the Brussels Times, and is available here.
The Pandemic Agreement negotiations began in December of 2021. Sufficiently motivated by the...
“This week, the medicines were not there”: What is at stake in the pandemic...
Earlier this week I listened to a testimony from a community worker at a maternity ward where HIV-positive women gave birth. 17 babies were...
The US NIH will share technology with WHO to fight the pandemic
The US National Institutes of Health today committed to sharing several technologies with a World Health Organization body tasked with increasing access to Covid-19...
Dutch Minister of Health writes open letter to pharma, threatens to name and shame
"Dear Pharma," writes the Dutch Minister of Health, Bruno Bruins in an open letter in the daily newspaper the Volkskrant, "Last week two messages jumped...