World Health Organization
Poor medicine for poor people
IPN Opinion article
New field research by Africa Fighting Malaria shows that a third of anti-malaria drugs collected in six African cities fail at least one quality test - yet aid agencies continue to fund untested, substandard drugs.
Symposium on intellectual property, innovation and health
A morning discussion in Copenhagen about the role of property rights and markets in health care and medical innovation.
Spare us from new colonialist ësaviours'
IPN Opinion article
Unaccountable western NGOs have great influence over the way African governments manage their affairs. The only problem is, they normally get things wrong.
WHO's Got its Facts Wrong?
IPN Opinion article
The World Health Organisation makes great sport of taking the pharmaceutical industry to task for its inability to provide everyone in the developing world with the drugs they need. This so-called market failure is being used at negotiations in Geneva this month to bring research and patents under official control, managed by the WHO--but the WHO has trouble managing itself.
