Drug Price Transparency Calls Move from South Africa to World Health Assembly
by Katrina Perehudoff and Jennifer Sellin
Over 30 states and 40 business and civil society groups debated strategies for affordable and sustainable medicines prices at...
WHO’s Essential Medicines Committee takes aim at rising prices, adds new treatments for cancer...
On 1 October, the World Health Organization published its latest Model List of Essential Medicines (EML) and Essential Medicines for Children (EMLc). Updated roughly...
Ensure greater transparency and meaningful participation for a better pandemic accord
This statement was delivered by Medicines Law & Policy at the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB), Session 12 (resumed), 6 December 2024
Madam co-chair (s), members...
The € 7.4 billion for Covid-19 product and vaccine development needs a few strings...
On 4 May 2020, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen hosted the Coronavirus Global Response conference, an on-line pledging event to accelerate the...
WHO is an essential forum for debates on intellectual property and public health
Recently, Health Policy Watch reported that some European countries at the World Health Organization (WHO) Pandemic Agreement negotiations maintain that intellectual property negotiations belong...
The IGWG process offers an opportunity to fulfil the equity objectives of the Pandemic...
Co-Chairs,
Thank you for the opportunity to make a brief intervention.
Both the sharing of pathogens and the sharing of the benefits, including products and knowledge,...
Will the European Court of Justice put a stop to the evergreening of Truvada...
Truvada, the fixed-dose combination of tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF) and emtricitabine (FTC) is a critical medicine in both HIV treatment and prevention. It is...
European Parliament’s amendments make the Regulation for EU-wide compulsory licensing difficult to use and...
European Parliament legislative resolution of 13 March 2024, on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on compulsory...
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...
Synthesis and Conclusions: Securing technology transfer in the Pandemic Agreement
This guest blog draws from the discussions at a 27 January 2025 expert workshop organised by the Geneva Graduate Institute entitled Technology Transfer in...