Health
WHO's in Charge?
IPN Opinion article
The strategic documents coming out of the WHO lay bare the power the big NGOs now have in shaping its agenda - and it is an agenda that promotes the failed redistributory economics of the past.
Is the proposed cure for the world's health problems worse than the disease?
IPN Opinion article
Activists' claims that too many resources are being devoted to finding cures for the diseases of the rich at the expense of the poor are both wrong and dangerous. By using this as a spurious justicification to reform the way in which R&D is conducted will have the unintended consequence of stifling the innovation that will provide us with drugs to combat the diseases of the future.
Diseases of poverty and the 10/90 gap
Martes, Noviembre 16, 2004
A new report from the Campaign for Fighting Diseases explores the so-called "10/90 Gap" - the idea that only 10% of global health research is devoted to conditions accounting for 90% of the global disease burden. The report shows that the 10/90 Gap is a myth.
Report dispels myth of the 10/90 Gap in health research, calls for more constructive approach to improving access to medicines for the poor
IPN Press release
How to Help India's AIDS Victims
IPN Opinion article
Julian Morris argues that patents cannot be the barrier to accessing AIDS medicines in India, since India does not recognise patent protection and has the largest generics industry in the world. The problem, he says, is the economic mis-governance that keeps Indians in poverty and the hopeless inadequacy of India's healthcare systems.
AIDS Drugs: Is patent the obstacle? [sic]
IPN Opinion article
Thompson Ayodele, director of the Institute of Public Policy Analysis in Lagos, Nigeria, argues that it is \"off target\" to blame patents for blocking access to medicines. He says \" The priority should be on increasing the economic well being of the people on the [African] continent\" by increasing trade and economic freedom -- not by increasing foreign aid.
Spread of AIDS, like terrorism, is bitter fruit of oppression
IPN Opinion article
Julian Morris analyses the claim that the AIDS pandemic will lead to increased terrorism
Empowerment is the solution to AIDS in Asia
IPN Opinion article
\"A more plausible solution to the AIDS problem in Thailand would be for the government to take a less oppressive attitude both to drug users and to drug producers. Education about the dangers of drug use, which would include messages about needle sharing, is a more responsible answer to the problem than throwing users in jail. Meanwhile, encouraging the research-based companies to sell their wares in Thailand, by respecting their intellectual property rights, is a more responsible answer than frightening them away by stealing their patents.\"
