Clinical research
Calls for Africa to make own Aids drugs dangerous
IPN Opinion article
Local production of drugs is a long-standing slogan in the aid industry and in many individual countries and has now been taken up by the African Union. But its superficial attraction hides vested interests, expensive subsidies and dangers to quality.
No more death by federal red tape
IPN Opinion article
The current system of drug regulation in the USA has led to plummeting innovation, ballooning costs and tragedy for terminal patients who are denied access to experimental drugs. The new FDA commissioner should make reform a priority.
Threat to Modern Medicines
IPN Opinion article
The WHO's plans to push subsidised local drug production in Africa threaten to worsen the problem of substandard generics, placing the most vulnerable at risk.
