Medicine
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
Globophobia - climate change and disease
IPN Opinion article
\"As Dr Paul Reiter of the Pasteur Institute in Paris points out in a new book, Adapt or Die; the Science, Politics and Economics of Climate Change, published by the International Policy Network, Europe has already been struck down with malaria. In fact, it was endemic in the Fens and in Holland throughout the ëLittle Ice Age' of the 16th and 17th centuries, when temperatures were one degree Celsius lower than they are now but sanitation and drainage were less developed. \"
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.
The Private Sector Needs Incentives
IPN Opinion article
The private sector needs to be involved in the quest for an AIDS vaccine
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.\"
Aids quick-fix won't save Africa
IPN Opinion article
Dr John Kilama, President of Global Bioscience Development Institute, warns against the dangerous belief that simply increasing the supply and lowering the cost of AIDS medicines in Africa will solve the crisis. In reality the entire healthcare infrastructure needs an overhaul before treatment regimens can be effective
Letter: Growing Coffee
IPN Opinion article
Letter to the editor examining fundamental causes of the "global coffee crisis"