Blogs

May 12, 2009

The Indian media continues to maintain that measures to stop counterfeit drugs are really patent-enforcing conspiracies to thwart their generics industry.

May 12, 2009

One of the biggest players in the development arena is the Global Fund for Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria, which has spent around $20bn over the last five years fighting these diseases.

May 8, 2009

Back in 2006, WHO created a taskforce for addressing the exploding problem of fake drugs.  Now it seems that the resulting IMPACT body...

May 8, 2009

The UN annouced on Wednesday ambitious new plans to phase out the use of DDT for combatting...

April 30, 2009

A new study from Tanzania's Ifakara Health Institute has shown that larvicides can be just as...

April 28, 2009

With children in Africa particularly vulnerable to malaria, the quality of antimalarial drugs can literally be a matter of life and death.

Furthermore, as well as failing to treat patients...

April 27, 2009

Undoubtedly today's main health story concerns the outbreak of swine flu, suspected to have killed over a...

April 27, 2009

The WHO issued a press release on Saturday, World Malaria Day, which at least showed they're starting to pay a little...

April 24, 2009

As we’ve come to expect, World Malaria Day is preceded by a plethora of stories on how many billions of dollars are spent fighting the disease.

April 23, 2009

Exactly one month ago we reported on WHO head Margaret Chan’s somewhat confused pronouncement...