Health

Not a lobby group

IPN Letters

Author: Julian Morris

Taxing the sick to death

IPN Opinion article

Author: Philip Stevens

India’s complex and arbitrary system of drug price controls sees bureaucrats constantly tinkering with the list, sowing confusion among producers, importers and retailers

West Africa is being taxed to death

IPN Opinion article

Author: Philip Stevens

Nigeria and Ghana should abolish their import taxes on medicines, which harm the poor the most.

Beware the blind alley of the 'right' to health

IPN Opinion article

Author: Jacob Mchangama

Treating health as an enforceable human right creates serious legal and democratic problems — and does not improve healthcare.

Pay more attention to silent killers

IPN Opinion article

Author: Philip Stevens

HIV/AIDS is a high profile disease that has received a disproportionately high amount of funding and attention, relative to "silent killers" such as pneumonia and diarrhoea

Healthcare's Swiss solution

IPN Opinion article

Author: Dr. Alphonse L. Crespo

Switzerland and the Netherlands could be a source of inspiration for America's healthcare reforms.